linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] ARM: remove set

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Date:   Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:49:29 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] ARM: remove set_fs callers and implementation

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 03:40:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> e0d17576790e quota: simplify the quotactl compat handling
> b0f8a0c4046f compat: add a compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup() helper
> ed8af9335e19 compat: lift compat_s64 and compat_u64 to <asm-generic/compat.h>
> ce526c75bbe2 uaccess: provide a generic TASK_SIZE_MAX definition
> 
> I think I only actually needed the last one of those for the Arm
> patches, the other ones are dependencies for my other patches
> I have on the same branch.

I still haven't gotten anyone to pick up the TASK_SIZE_MAX one.
So if you want to minimize dependencies just define TASK_SIZE_MAX
in the arm code for now, and we can remove redundant definitions later.