Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] mm: simplify compat numa syscalls

From
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Date
2021-07-27 18:50:11
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Reply to
Heiko Carstens, 2021-07-27
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 8:38 PM Heiko Carstens [off-list ref] wrote:
-268  common    mbind                   sys_mbind                       compat_sys_mbind
-269  common    get_mempolicy           sys_get_mempolicy               compat_sys_get_mempolicy
-270  common    set_mempolicy           sys_set_mempolicy               compat_sys_set_mempolicy
+268  common    mbind                   sys_mbind                       sys_mbind
+269  common    get_mempolicy           sys_get_mempolicy               sys_get_mempolicy
+270  common    set_mempolicy           sys_set_mempolicy               sys_set_mempolicy

would remove compat_ptr() conversion from nmask above if I'm not mistaken.
Maybe I'm misremembering how compat syscalls work on s390. Doesn't
SYSCALL_DEFINEx(sys_mbind) still create two entry points __s390x_sys_mbind()
and __s390_sys_mbind() with different argument conversion (__SC_CAST vs
__SC_COMPAT_CAST)? I thought that was the whole point of the macros.

        Arnd

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