[PATCH v2 6/8] arm: allow passing an ELF64 header to elf_check_arch()

[Mika Westerberg]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 02:21:56PM +0200, ext Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 03:09:20PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
[...]
> > I really don't know but fs/proc/vmcore.c is coded in such way that it supports
> > both types of ELF headers. It however, passes the header to elf_check_arch()
> > which in our case should fail if it is something else than ELF32 header.
> 
> There's other arches which want elf_check_arch to be a function call, so
> I think my question needs to be looked at more closely - and possibly
> the code changed such that we don't end up with this situation.
> 
> Maybe a cleaner solution would be for vmcore.c to split its calls to
> elf_check_arch() - to be elf32_check_arch() and elf64_check_arch() ?
> Platforms where it's just a macro can define both to be elf_check_arch()
> but those where only one flavour is supported should define the unsupported
> flavour to zero - which incidentally would allow the compiler to optimize
> away the unnecessary parts of parse_crash_elf*_headers().

Russell,

I noticed that you applied all the kdump patches except this and the
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP patch. Thanks.

Should I update this patch as you describe above? So that we don't need to
perform any casting but just have elf_check_arch() separated into 32- and 64-bit
versions. Or is there something else preventing these 2 patches to be merged?

Thanks,
MW