On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:12 PM Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 03:31:35PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

I don't really understand
the comment, why can't this just use this?

That errors out with:

ld: arch/x86/entry/syscall_x32.o:(.rodata+0x1040): undefined reference to
`__x32_sys_execve'
ld: arch/x86/entry/syscall_x32.o:(.rodata+0x1108): undefined reference to
`__x32_sys_execveat'
make: *** [Makefile:1139: vmlinux] Error 1

Ah, I see: it's marked x32-only, so arch/x86/entry/syscall_x32.c
uses the __x32 prefix instead of the __x64 one. Marking it 'common'
instead would make it work, but also create an extra entry point
for native processes, something that commit
6365b842aae4 ("x86/syscalls: Split the x32 syscalls into their own table")
was trying to avoid.

      Arnd