linux/arch
Chris Metcalf 48b25c43e6 [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls
When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to
be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and
in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by
compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls.

However, for historical reasons, several of the existing compat IPC
syscalls do not do this.  semctl() expects a pointer to the fourth
argument, instead of the fourth argument itself.  msgsnd(), msgrcv()
and shmat() expect arguments in different order.

This change adds an ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option that can be
set to preserve this behavior for ports that use it (x86, sparc, powerpc,
s390, and mips).  No actual semantics are changed for those architectures,
and there is only a minimal amount of code refactoring in ipc/compat.c.

Newer architectures like tile (and perhaps future architectures such
as arm64 and unicore64) should not select this option, and thus can
avoid having any IPC-specific code at all in their architecture-specific
compat layer.  In the same vein, if this option is not selected, IPC_64
mode is assumed, since that's what the <asm-generic> headers expect.

The workaround code in "tile" for msgsnd() and msgrcv() is removed
with this change; it also fixes the bug that shmat() and semctl() were
not being properly handled.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
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alpha alpha: fix 32/64-bit bug in futex support 2012-03-05 15:49:43 -08:00
arm IOMMU fixes for Linux v3.3-rc6 2012-03-09 07:26:25 -08:00
avr32 avr32: select generic atomic64_t support 2012-02-03 16:16:40 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
c6x C6X: fix KSTK_EIP and KSTK_ESP macros 2012-03-07 11:28:22 -05:00
cris lib: use generic pci_iomap on all architectures 2012-01-10 18:04:27 -08:00
frv Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
h8300 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
hexagon
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-01-18 15:51:48 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
m68k m68k: Do not set global share for non-kernel shared pages 2012-02-07 11:25:57 +10:00
microblaze Revert "microblaze: Add topology init" 2012-01-31 09:06:52 +01:00
mips [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
openrisc openrisc: Fix up audit_syscall_[entry|exit]() usage 2012-02-17 09:53:12 +01:00
parisc [PARISC] don't unconditionally override CROSS_COMPILE for 64 bit. 2012-02-28 09:39:28 -06:00
powerpc [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
s390 [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
score score: fix off-by-one index into syscall table 2012-01-23 08:38:49 -08:00
sh SuperH fixes for 3.3-rc5 2012-02-24 08:56:51 -08:00
sparc [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
tile [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
x86 [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
xtensa xtensa: fix memscan() 2012-02-03 16:16:40 -08:00
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