From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030394AbWAXI4H (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:56:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030401AbWAXI4E (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:56:04 -0500 Received: from liaag1ad.mx.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.30]:7660 "EHLO liaag1ad.mx.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030395AbWAXI4C (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:56:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:53:40 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] Shared ia32 syscall table To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeff Dike , "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Message-ID: <200601240355_MC3-1-B687-9FD3@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200601240141.08152.ak@suse.de> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 at 01:41:07 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:36, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > This patch series updates i386 and x86_64 so they share > > the same ia32 syscall table. UML already uses the i386 > > table and is updated to use the new shared table as well. > > That's wrong for x86-64. The IA32 syscall table needs > to point to compat_* version of syscalls, while the native > IA32 table uses sys_* directly. How could I have possibly gotten a successful boot of an i386 distro on top of the patched x86_64 kernel if this were wrong? Did you even look at the patches? -- Chuck