linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: use KERNEL_DS instead of get

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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 06:01:42 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: use KERNEL_DS instead of get_ds()

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:23:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Your script is disgusting, and I will not quote it for posterity for
> that reason. I will just say that git has a "path exclusion" thing
> that you can use to make it much more streamlined.
> 
> And I ended up going a bit further, and just got rid of it all in
> commit 736706bee329 ("get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function")

Any chance we could just retire the legacy FS/DS names that are
horribly misleading these days?  E.g. turn the whole thing into:

	uaccess_kernel_enable();

	...

	uaccess_kernel_disable();

which for now turn into the existing calls with a nesting counter
in task_struct, with the hopes of cleaning all that mess up
eventually.