On March 21, 2017 10:45:57 AM PDT, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> >wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 07:37:12PM +0300, Dmitry Safonov wrote: >> ... >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c >b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c >>> index d6b784a5520d..d3d4d9abcaf8 100644 >>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c >>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c >>> @@ -519,8 +519,14 @@ void set_personality_ia32(bool x32) >>> if (current->mm) >>> current->mm->context.ia32_compat = TIF_X32; >>> current->personality &= ~READ_IMPLIES_EXEC; >>> - /* in_compat_syscall() uses the presence of the x32 >>> - syscall bit flag to determine compat status */ >>> + /* >>> + * in_compat_syscall() uses the presence of the x32 >>> + * syscall bit flag to determine compat status. >>> + * On the bitness of syscall relies x86 mmap() code, >>> + * so set x32 syscall bit right here to make >>> + * in_compat_syscall() work during exec(). >>> + */ >>> + task_pt_regs(current)->orig_ax |= __X32_SYSCALL_BIT; >>> current->thread.status &= ~TS_COMPAT; >> >> Hi! I must admit I didn't follow close the overall series (so can't >> comment much here :) but I have a slightly unrelated question -- is >> there a way to figure out if task is running in x32 mode say with >> some ptrace or procfs sign? > >You should be able to figure out of a *syscall* is x32 by simply >looking at bit 30 in the syscall number. (This is unlike i386, which >is currently not reflected in ptrace.) > >Do we actually have an x32 per-task mode at all? If so, maybe we can >just remove it on top of Dmitry's series. We do, for things like signal delivery mostly. We have tried relying on it as little as possible, intentionally. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href