Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:58:46 +1100 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Generic is_compat_task helper |
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Andrew Morton writes:
> What continues to bug me about this (in a high-level hand-wavy sort of way) > is that this is an attribute of the mm_struct, not of the task_struct.
It's not only an attribute of the mm_struct; compat-ness doesn't just imply a restricted address space, it implies a different setting of the processor when the task is running, a different set of system calls, different interpretation of syscall arguments, etc.
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