RE: [RESEND RFC PATCH v2] arm64: Exposes support for 32-bit syscalls

[David Laight]

> > Any user space adaption layer would have to know which actual
> > driver has been opened and what internal structures it has.
> > Getting that right is hard and difficult.
> > The recent changes to move (IIRC) sockopt compatibility down
> > into the protocol code found quite a few places where it was
> > previously broken.
> > It is much easier to get it right in the code that knows about
> > the actual structures.
> 
> As Arnd I think was suggesting, we could have an ioctl32() syscall that
> allows compat arguments but not opening up the whole set of compat
> syscalls to native processes.

Why is that a problem.
The kernel has to allow absolute garbage in syscall parameters.
So it really shouldn't matter.
It may give processes extra ways to 'shoot themselves in the foot'
but surely that is their problem.

Certainly, on x86, a 64bit process can make all three different
types of system call.

	David

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