# Re: \[PATCH -v2\] Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h

- From: Tony Luck \<tony.luck@intel.com\>
- Date: 2011-06-03 22:52:15 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2011/06/3724644
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2011/06/3724623/t.md

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Eric Paris [ref] wrote:
> The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, we change
> regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure. =A0=
The
> only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it m=
akes
> the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs.

v2 builds and boots on ia64 now
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>


> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [for x86 portion]

  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  :-)

-Tony
```