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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64,signal: Remove 'fs' and 'gs' from sigcontext
On 07/11/2014 09:29 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
> index 076b11f..df9908b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
> @@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ struct sigcontext {
> __u64 rip;
> __u64 eflags; /* RFLAGS */
> __u16 cs;
> - __u16 gs;
> - __u16 fs;
> + __u16 __pad2; /* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
> + __u16 __pad1; /* Was called fs, but was always zero. */
> __u16 ss;
> __u64 err;
> __u64 trapno;

I'm just wondering if this is likely to cause compile error in existing
code. I guess worst case we can just revert this patch...

-hpa



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