Re: [PATCH] broken TASK_SIZE for ia32_aout

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun May 06 2012 - 16:51:43 EST


No. The input layer exports pointers in structures on the read/write paths, and bitmasks encoded in ASCII strings which depend on sizeof(long). The stupid... it burns...

David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 11:48:15 -0700
>
>> I would argue Sparc is not correct here but I am not a Sparc expert.
>
>I can easily make sparc take on the x86 behavior if things like the
>input layer really need it.
>
>However, isn't the input layer case a case where compat==native
>on anything other than x86 because it's a u64 alignment issue?

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