Re: [PATCH 02/30] x86-64: Use explicit sizes in sigcontext.h, preparefor x32

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Mar 06 2012 - 00:25:35 EST


On 02/23/2012 06:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/22/2012 01:23 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> I'd say we should fix at least the ones that are easy to spot because
>> they already use compat_u64 or have an #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 in compat
>> code. I've looked at everything I could find that fits into that category
>> and found only two locations. My expectation is that all other data
>> structures that would fall into this category are already broken
>> for 32 bit emulation on x86.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Would you mind sending these as patches to the respective maintainers?
> Since they don't depend on the x32 patchset per se it's probably the
> best way to handle this.
>
> Feel free to include my Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>.
>

Ping?

-hpa

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