linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] riscv: ptrace: Use the correct API for `fcsr' access

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Date:   Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
CC:     macro@....com, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        aou@...s.berkeley.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject:     Re: [PATCH 1/2] riscv: ptrace: Use the correct API for `fcsr' access

On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:07:45 PDT (-0700), viro@...iv.linux.org.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:01:01PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
>> > We currently have @start_pos fixed at 0 across all calls, which works as
>> > a result of the implementation, in particular because we have no padding
>> > between the FP general registers and the FP control and status register,
>> > but appears not to have been the intent of the API and is not what other
>> > ports do, requiring one to study the copy handlers to understand what is
>> > going on here.
>
> start_pos *is* fixed at 0 and it's going to go away, along with the
> sodding user_regset_copyout() very shortly.  ->get() is simply a bad API.
> See vfs.git#work.regset for replacement.  And ->put() is also going to be
> taken out and shot (next cycle, most likely).

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but given that branch replaces
all of this I guess it's best to just do nothing on our end here?