[PATCH 00/15] exec: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI

Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de
Mon Mar 2 04:25:24 PST 2026


There is nothing userspace can do with this value. In the kernel is
always combined with AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE, which is not exposed to
userspace and also changes from time to time.

Move the symbol to kernel-internal headers.

Meant to be applied through the asm-generic tree.
The default recipient list was huge. I trimmed it to only the
architecture lists.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
---
Thomas Weißschuh (15):
      MAINTAINERS: exec: Add more auxvec.h variants
      auxvec.h: Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE definitions to linux/auxvec.h
      asm-generic: add an in-kernel auxvec.h header
      ARM: drop custom asm/auxvec.h
      x86: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      arm64: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      RISC-V: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      LoongArch: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      s390: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      powerpc: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      MIPS: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      sparc: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      sh: Remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      alpha: remove AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH from UAPI
      auxvec.h: Drop fallback AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH

 MAINTAINERS                              |  5 +++++
 arch/alpha/include/asm/auxvec.h          |  7 +++++++
 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h     |  8 +++-----
 arch/arm/include/asm/auxvec.h            |  1 -
 arch/arm64/include/asm/auxvec.h          |  7 +++++++
 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h     |  6 ++----
 arch/loongarch/include/asm/auxvec.h      | 14 ++++++++++++++
 arch/loongarch/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h |  8 +++-----
 arch/mips/include/asm/auxvec.h           | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h      |  8 +++-----
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/auxvec.h        |  7 +++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h   |  6 ++----
 arch/riscv/include/asm/auxvec.h          | 13 +++++++++++++
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h     |  2 --
 arch/s390/include/asm/auxvec.h           |  7 +++++++
 arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h      |  6 ++----
 arch/sh/include/asm/auxvec.h             |  7 +++++++
 arch/sh/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h        |  8 +++-----
 arch/sparc/include/asm/auxvec.h          |  6 ++++++
 arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h     |  8 +++-----
 arch/x86/include/asm/auxvec.h            | 12 ++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h       | 13 +++----------
 include/asm-generic/Kbuild               |  1 +
 include/asm-generic/auxvec.h             |  7 +++++++
 include/linux/auxvec.h                   |  5 +++++
 include/linux/mm_types.h                 |  6 ------
 26 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: f6b3b0a4c85882ad75bce3b093173203e3f39f28
change-id: 20260109-at-vector-size-arch-6e0f2e9ff8b6

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>




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