On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 1:53 AM Greg Ungerer gerg@linux-m68k.org wrote:
On 21/4/22 00:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
In a recent discussion[1] it was reported that the binfmt_flat library support was only ever used on m68k and even on m68k has not been used in a very long time.
The structure of binfmt_flat is different from all of the other binfmt implementations becasue of this shared library support and it made life and code review more effort when I refactored the code in fs/exec.c.
Since in practice the code is dead remove the binfmt_flat shared libarary support and make maintenance of the code easier.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/81788b56-5b15-7308-38c7-c7f2502c4e15@linux-m68k.or... Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederm@xmission.com
Can the binfmt_flat folks please verify that the shared library support really isn't used?
I can definitely confirm I don't use it on m68k. And I don't know of anyone that has used it in many years.
Was binfmt_flat being enabled on arm and sh the mistake it looks like?
I think the question was intended to be
Was *binfmt_flat_shared_flat* being enabled on arm and sh the mistake it looks like?
arch/arm/configs/lpc18xx_defconfig | 1 - arch/arm/configs/mps2_defconfig | 1 - arch/arm/configs/stm32_defconfig | 1 - arch/arm/configs/vf610m4_defconfig | 1 -
binfmt_flat works on ARM. I use it all the time. According to those defconfigs those are all non-MMU systems, so having binfmt_flat enabled makes some sense there.
arch/sh/configs/rsk7201_defconfig | 1 - arch/sh/configs/rsk7203_defconfig | 1 - arch/sh/configs/se7206_defconfig | 1 -
Those are all SH2 systems if I am reading the defconfigs correctly. SH2 is non-MMU according to the Kconfig setup. So it makes sense that binfmt_flat is enabled on those too.
I've checked git history, and CONFIG_BINFMT_SHARED_FLAT was enabled in se7206_defconfig in a non-specific defconfig update, so no further info. The other two had it enabled since their introduction, so I guess they were just based on the former.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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