linux-kernel - Re: remove set

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Message-ID: <20200907060356.GA18655@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 08:03:56 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: remove set_fs for riscv

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I've had a first pass at this now, see
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git/log/?h=arm-kill-set_fs
> 
> There are a couple of things in there that ended up uglier than I was
> hoping for, and it's completely untested beyond compilation. Is this
> roughly what you had in mind? I can do some testing then and post
> it to the Arm mailing list.

Looks sensible.  The OABI hacks a are a little ugly, but so would be
every other alternative.

Note that you don't need to add a TASK_SIZE_MAX definition to arm if you
base it on my series as that provides a default one.  I also think with
these changes arm/nommu should be able to use UACCESS_MEMCPY.