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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:11:52 +0000
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 05:54:17PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:

> I still feel that it is iffy practice for userspace to rely on the
> extra bits being zeroed -- I think the architecture hides this
> guarantee anyway whenever you go through a function call confirming to
> the regular procedure call standard (including the syscall wrappers).
> But there may not be a lot of point trying to put people off if we
> can't force them not to rely on it.

I do tend to agree that the requirement to zero is excessively zealous
and that the risk from relaxing it is minor (it's stricter than the
function call ABI), I did leave a sysctl as a mechanism for restoring
compatibility in the case where we did run into issues in my original
series but I didn't expect to need it.  If you convince everyone else
I'd be happy to relax things but I don't super care either way.

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