Thread (83 messages) 83 messages, 8 authors, 2021-05-25

Re: [PATCH v6 04/21] arm64: Kill 32-bit applications scheduled on 64-bit-only CPUs

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-05-21 10:55:45
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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
Scheduling a 32-bit application on a 64-bit-only CPU is a bad idea.

Ensure that 32-bit applications always take the slow-path when returning
to userspace on a system with mismatched support at EL0, so that we can
avoid trying to run on a 64-bit-only CPU and force a SIGKILL instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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