[PATCH v2] powerpc: fix personality handling in ppc64_personality()

Jiri Kosina jkosina at suse.cz
Thu Sep 6 18:46:19 EST 2012


On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> > actually commit 7256a5d2da56 seems to contain the correct PER_LINUX 
> > handling, so seems like you picked the right one :)
> > 
> 
> Odd, they looked different around the use of PER_MASK when I looked but

The original patch had

	personality &= ~PER_LINUX | PER_LINUX32;

Which is bogus, exactly because ~PER_LINUX is -1.

I then used

	personality = (personality & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX32;

which is correct and perhaps a little bit more descriptive, and that is 
what you have merged, so all is fine.

> I was tired & jet lagged, so I might have just had a brain fail...

Probably just missed that the first patch used PER_LINUX and the second 
one PER_MASK, or whatever.

Anyway, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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