Re: [PATCH] arm64/sve: <uapi/asm/ptrace.h> should not depend on <uapi/linux/prctl.h>

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:14:44PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:38:01PM +0200, Anisse Astier wrote:
> >   */
> > -#define SVE_PT_VL_INHERIT		(PR_SVE_VL_INHERIT >> 16)
> > -#define SVE_PT_VL_ONEXEC		(PR_SVE_SET_VL_ONEXEC >> 16)
> > +#define SVE_PT_VL_INHERIT		(1 << 1) /* PR_SVE_VL_INHERIT */
> > +#define SVE_PT_VL_ONEXEC		(1 << 2) /* PR_SVE_SET_VL_ONEXEC */
> 
> Makes sense, but...
> 
> Since sve_context.h was already introduced to solve a closely related
> problem, I wonder whether we can provide shadow definitions there,
> similarly to way the arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h definitions are
> derived.  Although it's a slight abuse of that header, I think that
> would be my preferred approach.

Yes, that sounds better to me as well. Please send a v2!

Will