On 7/11/2012 11:32 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Commit 48b25c43 ("[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC
> syscalls") added a new ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option for
> architectures to select if their compat target requires the old IPC
> syscall interface.
>
> For architectures (such as AArch64) that do not require the internal
> calling conventions provided by this option, but have a compat target
> where the C library passes the IPC_64 flag explicitly,
> compat_ipc_parse_version no longer strips out the flag before calling
> the native system call implementation, resulting in unknown SHM/IPC
> commands and -EINVAL being returned to userspace.
>
> This patch separates the selection of the internal calling conventions
> for the IPC syscalls from the version parsing, allowing architectures to
> select __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if they want to use version
> parsing whilst retaining the newer syscall calling conventions.
>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> ---
> include/linux/compat.h | 1 +
> ipc/compat.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
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