Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:15:00PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>> From: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
>> 
>> Little endian ppc64 is getting an exciting new ABI.  This is reflected
>> by the bottom two bits of e_flags in the ELF header:
>> 
>>      0 == legacy binaries (v1 ABI)
>>      1 == binaries using the old ABI (compiled with a new toolchain)
>>      2 == binaries using the new ABI.
>
> Just to be ridiculously clear for stupid people like me, you refer here
> to the "v1 ABI" and "the old ABI" - they are the same thing - right?

Sorry for delay, was off for a week.

Yes, same thing.

>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h 
>> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
>> index ba7b197..05a3030 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
>> @@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ static inline struct thread_info 
>> *current_thread_info(void)
>>  #define TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE     16      /* Is an instruction emulation
>>                                              for stack store? */
>>  #define TIF_MEMDIE          17      /* is terminating due to OOM killer */
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64)
>> +#define TIF_ELF2ABI         18      /* function descriptors must die! */
>> +#endif
>
> This is the first TIF flag we #ifdef for 32 vs 64, is that just because
> we don't want to waste a flag on 32 bit?

No, it's because I wanted to make damn sure that there wasn't anyone
testing this in 32-bit code, since ELF2 is currently a 64-bit only
option.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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