Re: [PATCH 4.9 1/2] um: Allow building and running on older hosts

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On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:33:37AM +0100, Alessio Balsini wrote:
> commit 0a987645672ebde7844a9c0732a5a25f3d4bb6c6 upstream.
> 
> Commit a78ff1112263 ("um: add extended processor state save/restore
> support") and b6024b21fec8 ("um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support
> YMM registers") forced the use of the x86 FP _xstate and
> PTRACE_GETREGSET/SETREGSET. On older hosts, we would neither be able to
> build UML nor run it anymore with these two commits applied because we
> don't have definitions for struct _xstate nor these two ptrace requests.
> 
> We can determine at build time which fp context structure to check
> against, just like we can keep using the old i387 fp save/restore if
> PTRACE_GETRESET/SETREGSET are not defined.
> 
> Fixes: a78ff1112263 ("um: add extended processor state save/restore support")
> Fixes: b6024b21fec8 ("um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support YMM registers")
> Change-Id: I2cda034c8a6637de392c2740a993982ad132bda5

No need for change-id in upstream patches :)

let me see if I can just take what is already in 4.13 directly...




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