[PATCH] arm64: fix /proc/cpuinfo for elf32
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 02:12:39 PDT 2016
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:37:33AM +0800, Zeng Tao wrote:
> For elf32 thread, personality is used for arm32,
> and thread_flag for arm64.
>
> Here personality is used for arm64, so fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng at huawei.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
> index 84c8684..f739398 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
> @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int c_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> * software which does already (at least for 32-bit).
> */
> seq_puts(m, "Features\t:");
> - if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32) {
> + if (test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT)) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> for (j = 0; compat_hwcap_str[j]; j++)
> if (compat_elf_hwcap & (1 << j))
We discussed this some time ago and we decided against it. One reason
was scripts where you may or may not end up with the desired cpuinfo
(e.g. grep being 64-bit invoked by a 32-bit bash). The personality at
least is inherited by child processes.
--
Catalin
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