On 12/29/2014 04:52 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This has the benefit the it avoids cluttering prctl with more > arch-specific functionality. The down side is that arch_prctl will > need to be wired up as a 32-bit syscall to add 32-bit support for > MPX.
There is existing userspace out there which depends on the existing prctl() setup. There isn't a _lot_ and it might still be able to be changed easily, but this isn't a given. I'll check in with the folks doing the gcc (runtime) part of this next week and see what they think. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
