On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Ren, Qiaowei wrote: > On 2014-09-12, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Qiaowei Ren wrote: > > > >> Due to new fields about bound violation added into struct siginfo, > >> this patch syncs it with general version to avoid build issue. > > > > You completely fail to explain which build issue is addressed by this > > patch. The code you added to kernel/signal.c which accesses _addr_bnd > > is guarded by > > > > +#ifdef SEGV_BNDERR > > > > which is not defined my MIPS. Also why is this only affecting MIPS and > > not any other architecture which provides its own struct siginfo ? > > > > That patch makes no sense at all, at least not without a proper explanation. > > > For arch=mips, siginfo.h (arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h) will > include general siginfo.h, and only replace general stuct siginfo > with mips specific struct siginfo. So SEGV_BNDERR will be defined > for all archs, and we will get error like "no _lower in struct > siginfo" when arch=mips. > In addition, only MIPS arch define its own struct siginfo, so this > is only affecting MIPS. So IA64 does not count as an architecture and therefor does not need the same treatment, right? Thanks, tglx -- 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>