Re: [PATCH v2] alpha/elf: Fix misc/setarch test of util-linux by removing 32bit support
Kees Cook <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:39:01 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Richard Henderson <[email protected]> writes[1]: > > > There was a Spec benchmark (I forget which) which was memory bound and ran > > twice as fast with 32-bit pointers. > > > > I copied the idea from DEC to the ELF abi, but never did all the other work > > to allow the toolchain to take advantage. > > > > Amusingly, a later Spec changed the benchmark data sets to not fit into a > > 32-bit address space, specifically because of this. > > > > I expect one could delete the ELF bit and personality and no one would > > notice. Not even the 10 remaining Alpha users. > > [...] Applied to for-next/topic/execve/core, thanks! [1/1] alpha/elf: Fix misc/setarch test of util-linux by removing 32bit support https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/b029628be267 Take care, -- Kees Cook