# \[PATCH v6 14/25\] powerpc: Provide do\_ppc64\_personality helper

- From: Rohan McLure \<hidden\>
- Date: 2022-09-21 07:06:49 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2022/09/9528332
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2022/09/9528318/t.md

```text
Avoid duplication in future patch that will define the ppc64_personality
syscall handler in terms of the SYSCALL_DEFINE and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
macros, by extracting the common body of ppc64_personality into a helper
function.

Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
V3: New commit.
V5: Remove 'inline'.
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
index 9830957498b0..135a0b9108d5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap, unsigned long, addr, size_t, len,
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-long ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality)
+static long do_ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality)
 {
 	long ret;
 
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ long ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality)
 		ret = (ret & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX;
 	return ret;
 }
+long ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality)
+{
+	return do_ppc64_personality(personality);
+}
 #endif
 
 long ppc_fadvise64_64(int fd, int advice, u32 offset_high, u32 offset_low,
-- 
2.34.1

```