linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] futex: remove duplicated code

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Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:43:40 -0800
From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] futex: remove duplicated code

On 03/03/2017 04:27 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
> futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
> and comparison of the result.
> 
> Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
> assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.
> 
> Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
> remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
> We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
> optimized away anyway).


Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>   # Boot tested on ARC

Thx,
-Vineet