[PATCH v8 6/7] powerpc/64: Make COMPAT user-selectable disabled on littleendian by default.

Michal Suchanek msuchanek at suse.de
Fri Sep 13 03:26:08 AEST 2019


On bigendian ppc64 it is common to have 32bit legacy binaries but much
less so on littleendian.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
v3: make configurable
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 5bab0bb6b833..b0339e892329 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -264,8 +264,9 @@ config PANIC_TIMEOUT
 	default 180
 
 config COMPAT
-	bool
-	default y if PPC64
+	bool "Enable support for 32bit binaries"
+	depends on PPC64
+	default y if !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 	select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
 	select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
 	select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
-- 
2.23.0



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