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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-04-21 16:31:52 -0400
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Conflicts were simple overlapping changes in microchip driver. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ First, the entry in ``arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl`` gets an extra
column to indicate that a 32-bit userspace program running on a 64-bit kernel
should hit the compat entry point::
- 380 i386 xyzzy sys_xyzzy compat_sys_xyzzy
+ 380 i386 xyzzy sys_xyzzy __ia32_compat_sys_xyzzy
Second, you need to figure out what should happen for the x32 ABI version of
the new system call. There's a choice here: the layout of the arguments
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ the compatibility wrapper::
333 64 xyzzy sys_xyzzy
...
- 555 x32 xyzzy compat_sys_xyzzy
+ 555 x32 xyzzy __x32_compat_sys_xyzzy
If no pointers are involved, then it is preferable to re-use the 64-bit system
call for the x32 ABI (and consequently the entry in