Thread (130 messages) 130 messages, 8 authors, 2016-05-18

[PATCH 25/25] arm64:ilp32: add ARM64_ILP32 to Kconfig

From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: 2016-04-29 16:14:54
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:08:55PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:03:34PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:08:47AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
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+config ARM64_ILP32
+	bool "Kernel support for ILP32"
+	select COMPAT_WRAPPER
+	help
+	  This option enables support for AArch64 ILP32 user space.  ILP32
+	  is an ABI where long and pointers are 32bits but it uses the AARCH64
+	  instruction set.
Is there any penalty for AArch32 tasks when selecting COMPAT_WRAPPER?
No. AARCH32 doesn't define __SC_WRAP and so __SYSCALL macro is used,
which fills syscall table with sys_xxx versions, not compat_sys_xxx.
Ah, I forgot it has its own unistd32.h.

Thanks.

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Catalin
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