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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:34:58 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 04/13] arch/x86: add syscall_get_arch to syscall.h
On 03/14/2012 08:11 PM, Will Drewry wrote:
>
> +static inline int syscall_get_arch(struct task_struct *task,
> + struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
> + /*
> + * TS_COMPAT is set for 32-bit syscall entries and then
> + * remains set until we return to user mode.
> + *
> + * TIF_IA32 tasks should always have TS_COMPAT set at
> + * system call time.
> + */
> + if (task_thread_info(task)->status & TS_COMPAT)
> + return AUDIT_ARCH_I386;
> +#endif
> + return AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64;
> +}
> #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
>
> #endif /* _ASM_X86_SYSCALL_H */
Just one FYI on this: after the x32 changes are upstream this can be
implemented in terms of is_ia32_task().
-hpa
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