On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 13:56 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on > FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if > !defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR). > > This default is only useful for ia64. arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, > 64-bit UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it. arm, > 32-bit UML, and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own > implementations. > > This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64. > > This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's > now possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case. Looks good to me. Booted and everything seems happy, I still have a vdso etc. Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (for powerpc) cheers -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>