[PATCH V4 03/17] asm-generic: compat: Cleanup duplicate definitions

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Jan 31 23:21:26 AEDT 2022


On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 08:17:14PM +0800, guoren at kernel.org wrote:
> From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> There are 7 64bit architectures that support Linux COMPAT mode to
> run 32bit applications. A lot of definitions are duplicate:
>  - COMPAT_USER_HZ
>  - COMPAT_RLIM_INFINITY
>  - COMPAT_OFF_T_MAX
>  - __compat_uid_t, __compat_uid_t
>  - compat_dev_t
>  - compat_ipc_pid_t
>  - struct compat_flock
>  - struct compat_flock64
>  - struct compat_statfs
>  - struct compat_ipc64_perm, compat_semid64_ds,
> 	  compat_msqid64_ds, compat_shmid64_ds
> 
> Cleanup duplicate definitions and merge them into asm-generic.

The flock part seems to clash with the general compat_flock
consolidation.  Otherwise this looks like a good idea.


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