Re: [PATCH] Generic is_compat_task helper

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:49:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +static inline int __is_compat_task(struct task_struct *t)
> > +{
> > +	return (personality(t->personality) == PER_LINUX32);
> > +}
> > +
> 
> What continues to bug me about this (in a high-level hand-wavy sort of way)
> is that this is an attribute of the mm_struct, not of the task_struct.
>

I'm not sure I agree, I can't find any real defined use for PER_LINUX32,
as opposed to PER_LINUX_32BIT, which is | ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT. That said,
I'm not opposed to moving parisc to use TIF_32BIT, in fact, I had this
in mind when I give the entrypoints a crapectomy.

Cheers,
	Kyle
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