On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:53:20PM +0100, 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.
For the arm64 bit: Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Will _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev