linux-kernel - Re: remove set

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Date:   Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:33:37 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        "moderated list:H8/300 ARCHITECTURE" 
        <uclinux-h8-devel@...ts.sourceforge.jp>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: remove set_fs() for h8300

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 01:05:30PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It took me a while to figure out that this works on architectures that
> define CONFIG_UACCESS_MEMCPY, as they get the asm-generic
> version of get_kernel_nofault(). Maybe add that to the changelog,
> plus my
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Do you have more of these? I'm happy to take them through the
> asm-generic tree, at least for architectures with no response from
> the maintainers (not m68k, which looks too complex). I did partial
> patches for sh and sparc at some point to remove the set_fs() callers,
> but got stuck when I tried doing ia64 and didn't submit any of these.

This one actually got picked up in the u8300 tree now.  The only
outstanding one I have is uml, waiting for maintainer feedback for
that.