linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 10/13] x86/uintr: Introduce user IPI sender syscalls

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Message-ID: <40eb2b51-b928-0bf4-aac7-abd7032af640@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:27:13 -0700
From:   Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 10/13] x86/uintr: Introduce user IPI sender syscalls

On 9/29/2021 12:04 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:01:54AM -0700, Sohil Mehta wrote:
>>
>> Is this reasonable or would you still prefer a pointer?
> Ok, just document it really well that this is NOT a real address used by
> the kernel.  As it is, that's not obvious at all.


Thanks. I'll do that.

>
> And if this crosses the user/kernel boundry, it needs to be __u64 right?


This one doesn't cross the user/kernel boundary. The kernel programs a 
value in this struct for the hardware to consume.

But there might be other places where I have missed that. I'll fix those.

Thanks,
Sohil