Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:27:46 +0100
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
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Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer a ?crit :
> >Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>On mips(el), when doing multiple call to the syscall SYS_personality in 
> >>order to get the current personality (using 0xffffffff for the first 
> >>argument), on a 64-bit kernel, the second and subsequent syscalls are 
> >>failing. That works correctly with a 32-bit kernels and on other 
> >>architectures.
> >
> >That's caused by mis-handling broken sign extensions, see also
> >http://bugs.debian.org/380531.
> 
> I still got the exact same problem with this patch applied.

I works for me on a bcm91480b in big endian mode.


Thiemo
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