linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] microblaze: remove CONFIG_SET

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Message-ID: <YgoHpAG0GCdccLZF@infradead.org>
Date:   Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:41:24 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] microblaze: remove CONFIG_SET_FS

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 09:46:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Can you say why you didn't convert ia64? I don't see any set_fs() use
> there, except for the unaligned handler, which looks trivial to
> remove. It looks like the only reason for it is kernel-mode unaligned
> exceptions, which we should just turn fatal, I suspect (they already
> get logged).
> 
> And ia64 people could make the unaligned handling do the kernel mode
> case in emulate_load/store_int() - it doesn't look *that* painful.

Are there any ia64 people left? :)