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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nathaniel Husted <nhusted@gmail.com>,
	Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: ptrace: Include linux/audit.h to fix build errors
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:14:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120215171415.GE29319@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329325622.2337.13.camel@localhost>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:07:02PM +0000, Eric Paris wrote:
> Fixing the arch flag to be correct means we could do that translation
> properly.  I haven't seen the patches to support translation of arm raw
> bits to something higher level in audit userspace, but I assume it's
> coming as soon as someone cares.
> 
> So if someone tells me how the code knows it's endianness I'll gladly
> write the ifdef to switch from AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB to AUDIT_ARCH_ARM when
> appropriate....

You should just be able to use #ifdef __ARMEB__ for the big-endian case (we
don't support a little-endian kernel with a big-endian userspace or anything
funky like that). If Russell has reverted the original patch your best bet is
probably to spin a v2 of the ARM bits and post it to LAK.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-15  5:36 Axel Lin
2012-02-15  8:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-15  9:52   ` Will Deacon
2012-02-15 10:18     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-15 15:10       ` Eric Paris
2012-02-15 16:10         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-15 16:14           ` Nathaniel Husted
2012-02-15 17:07   ` Eric Paris
2012-02-15 17:14     ` Will Deacon [this message]
2012-02-15 17:34     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-15 19:57       ` Eric Paris
2012-02-15 20:19         ` Nicolas Pitre

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