linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc shmctl compat

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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:00:48 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robert O'Callahan <robert@...llahan.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc
 shmctl compat

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:46:56AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:37:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > And I think your recent compat cleanup work actually made it worse,
> > showing new warnings (including the one that was a real bug)
> 
> Actually, they are not new - try make C=2 ipc/compat.o on v4.13 and you'll
> see their previous locations.
> 
> > Patch to at least fix the address space warnings in ipc/ attached.
> 
> Which tree do you prefer it to go through?  Direct to mainline, or vfs.git
> #for-next?

FWIW, __percpu and __rcu annotations are messy as hell.  Never got around
to sorting down the infrastructure annotations for that bunch, and I'm
not entirely sure that they (especially __rcu) are a good match for
__address_space__(()).