From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Start removing X86_X32_ABI
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 12:40:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260526104051.MmQQ03a8@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10BF3F18-4709-43D6-979C-49067707F1C1@zytor.com>
On 2026-05-23 14:43:52 [-0700], H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> However, we can not recycle the syscall numbers. The x32 flag in the
> syscall number was advisory originally; it was introduced late in the
> game to work around a design bug in the input subsystem (*).
If x32 is removed/ not supported why can't the 32/64 bit ABI use syscall
numbers 512+? It is an ELF32 with EM_X86_64 which should be rejected.
Shouldn't this free the space because there are no users anymore?
> -hpa
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-26 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-23 9:37 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-23 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-05-26 10:40 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2026-05-26 15:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-05-26 15:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-05-26 20:43 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-31 21:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-06-01 21:44 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-06-01 22:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-05-27 12:02 ` David Laight
2026-06-01 21:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-06-04 20:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-05-27 13:10 ` Sam James
2026-05-27 13:41 ` Neal Gompa
2026-05-27 15:57 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-06-01 21:12 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-06-01 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-05-28 7:05 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-06-01 21:26 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-31 22:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-06-02 16:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-06-02 16:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-06-05 3:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-07-04 8:08 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-04 8:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-06-02 9:48 ` Richard Purdie
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