[RFC PATCH] Keep 3 high personality bytes across exec

2008-06-17 Thread Eric B Munson
Currently when a 32 bit process is exec'd on a powerpc 64 bit host the values of the top three bytes of the personality are clobbered. This patch adds a check in the SET_PERSONALITY macro that will carry all the values in the top three bytes across the exec. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <[EMAIL P

Re: [RFC PATCH] Keep 3 high personality bytes across exec

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Mackerras
Eric B Munson writes: > Currently when a 32 bit process is exec'd on a powerpc 64 bit host the values > of the top three bytes of the personality are clobbered. This patch adds a > check in the SET_PERSONALITY macro that will carry all the values in the top > three bytes across the exec. > > Sig