Re: [PATCH 4/5] s390: Define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH for ARCH_DLINFO

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Sun Jul 31 2016 - 09:23:16 EST


On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:59:53 +0100
James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH should be defined with the maximum number of
> NEW_AUX_ENT entries that ARCH_DLINFO can contain, but it wasn't defined
> for s390 at all even though ARCH_DLINFO can contain one NEW_AUX_ENT when
> VDSO is enabled.
>
> This shouldn't be a problem as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE includes space for
> AT_BASE_PLATFORM which s390 doesn't use, but lets define it now and add
> the comment above ARCH_DLINFO as found in several other architectures to
> remind future modifiers of ARCH_DLINFO to keep AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH up to
> date.
>
> Fixes: b020632e40c3 ("[S390] introduce vdso on s390")
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The patch makes sense. I not quite sure about the checkpoint-restore code
that clears the last two entries of the user_auxv[] without knowing how
many aux entries there really are. That seems kind of strange.

I will the patch to our repositories and we'll give it a spin. If there
is no fallout I queue it to linux-s390.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.