Re: [PATCH 05/20] arm64: rename COMPAT to AARCH32_EL0 in Kconfig

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Thu Jun 08 2017 - 10:09:30 EST


On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:59:54PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ config ARM64_ERRATUM_834220
>
> config ARM64_ERRATUM_845719
> bool "Cortex-A53: 845719: a load might read incorrect data"
> - depends on COMPAT
> + depends on AARCH32_EL0
> default y
> help
> This option adds an alternative code sequence to work around ARM
> @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
>
> menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED
> bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions"
> - depends on COMPAT
> + depends on AARCH32_EL0
> help
> Legacy software support may require certain instructions
> that have been deprecated or obsoleted in the architecture.
> @@ -1062,9 +1062,15 @@ menu "Userspace binary formats"
> source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
>
> config COMPAT
> + bool
> + depends on AARCH32_EL0

You could just use "def_bool y" here

> +
> +config AARCH32_EL0
> bool "Kernel support for 32-bit EL0"
> + def_bool y
> depends on ARM64_4K_PAGES || EXPERT
> select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF
> + select COMPAT

and avoid the explicit select.

> select HAVE_UID16
> select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
> select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
[...]
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
> @@ -139,15 +139,17 @@ static int c_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> */
> seq_puts(m, "Features\t:");
> if (compat) {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> - for (j = 0; compat_hwcap_str[j]; j++)
> - if (compat_elf_hwcap & (1 << j))
> - seq_printf(m, " %s", compat_hwcap_str[j]);
> -
> - for (j = 0; compat_hwcap2_str[j]; j++)
> - if (compat_elf_hwcap2 & (1 << j))
> - seq_printf(m, " %s", compat_hwcap2_str[j]);
> -#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_AARCH32_EL0
> + if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32) {
> + for (j = 0; compat_hwcap_str[j]; j++)
> + if (compat_elf_hwcap & (1 << j))
> + seq_printf(m, " %s", compat_hwcap_str[j]);
> +
> + for (j = 0; compat_hwcap2_str[j]; j++)
> + if (compat_elf_hwcap2 & (1 << j))
> + seq_printf(m, " %s", compat_hwcap2_str[j]);
> + }
> +#endif /* CONFIG_AARCH32_EL0 */

I don't understand this hunk. Why do you need another check on
personality? "compat" is already true if PER_LINUX32.

--
Catalin