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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:06:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060710060603.GA9440@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060708180554.GB7034@lst.de>

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:05:54PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently most architectures either always build binfmt_elf32 in the
> kernel image or make it a boolean option.  Only sparc64 and s390 allow
> to build it modularly.  This patch turns the option into a boolean
> aswell because elf requires various symbols that shouldn't be available
> to modules.  The most urgent one is tasklist_lock whos export this patch
> series kills, but there are others like force_sgi aswell.
> [...] 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/Kconfig	2006-07-06 14:21:17.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig	2006-07-08 19:08:46.000000000 +0200
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
>  	default y
>  
>  config BINFMT_ELF32
> -	tristate "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
> +	bool "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
>  	depends on COMPAT
>  	help

Martin and I discussed this already a few days ago. This config option
should go away on s390, since everybody who wants CONFIG_COMPAT also wants
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF32. See patch below which applies on top of yours:

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

[PATCH] s390: remove BINFMT_ELF32 config option

Remove BINFMT_ELF32 config option. Support should be always compiled in
if CONFIG_COMPAT is set.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
---

 arch/s390/Kconfig         |    7 -------
 arch/s390/kernel/Makefile |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -118,13 +118,6 @@ config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
 	depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
 	default y
 
-config BINFMT_ELF32
-	bool "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
-	depends on COMPAT
-	help
-	  This allows you to run 32-bit Linux/ELF binaries on your zSeries
-	  in 64 bit mode. Everybody wants this; say Y.
-
 comment "Code generation options"
 
 choice
Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
+++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES)		+= s390_ksyms.o m
 obj-$(CONFIG_SMP)		+= smp.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT)		+= compat_linux.o compat_signal.o \
-					compat_wrapper.o compat_exec_domain.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF32)	+= binfmt_elf32.o
+					compat_wrapper.o compat_exec_domain.o \
+					binfmt_elf32.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRT_TIMER)	+= vtime.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE)	+= stacktrace.o

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-10  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-08 18:05 Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-08 20:48 ` David Miller
2006-07-10  6:06 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2006-07-10  8:27   ` Martin Schwidefsky

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