[PATCH v2 33/35] powerpc/64: Make COMPAT user-selectable disabled on littleendian by default.

From: Michal Suchanek
Date: Tue Nov 26 2019 - 15:15:13 EST


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

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
---
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 3e56c9c2f16e..825528db2921 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -266,8 +266,9 @@ 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