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Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:12:57 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, linux@...ck-us.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: unify copy_from_user() size checking


* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:

> >>> On 29.10.13 at 10:54, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > * Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> >>> On 26.10.13 at 12:31, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >> > * Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:
> >> >> I'd like to point out though that with __compiletime_object_size()
> >> >> being restricted to gcc before 4.6, the whole construct is going to
> >> >> become more and more pointless going forward. I would question
> >> >> however that commit 2fb0815c9ee6b9ac50e15dd8360ec76d9fa46a2 ("gcc4:
> >> >> disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+") was really necessary,
> >> >> and instead this should have been dealt with as is done here from the
> >> >> beginning.
> >> > 
> >> > Can we now revert 2fb0815c9ee6?
> >> 
> >> Actually I'm afraid parisc would first need to follow the changes 
> >> done on x86 here, or else they'd run into (compile time) issues 
> >> (s390 and tile only emit warnings, i.e. would at worst suffer 
> >> cosmetically unless subtrees putting -Werror in place are 
> >> affected).
> > 
> > Given how trivial __compiletime_object_size() is, we could replicate 
> > a (differently named) copy of that in x86 uaccess.h?
> 
> I would never have dared to suggest something like that...
> 
> But if you're fine with that, I can certainly do so. I'd then even 
> wonder whether we shouldn't re-use the same name,
> #undef-ing the one we got from compiler*.h - after all the
> goal would be for compiler-gcc4.h to change in exactly that way.

Yeah, I think that would work.

> > This is something that would be pretty platform dependent 
> > anyway.
> 
> Why do you think so? That's entirely a compiler construct.

Yeah, what I mean is that the progress of kernel support here is 
done on a per platform manner anyway, the 'generic' piece in 
compiler.h and compiler-gcc4.h is tiny and more of a hindrance than 
a useful generalization/sharing of code...

Thanks,

	Ingo
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