linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] core/entry for v6.6-rc1

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Message-ID: <875y4y97b3.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:38:08 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] core/entry for v6.6-rc1

On Mon, Aug 28 2023 at 14:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 06:01, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> A single update to the core entry code, which removes the empty user
>> address limit check which is a leftover of the removed TIF_FSCHECK.
>
> Heh. Lovely. I wonder if we have other cases of #ifdef's that just
> aren't #define'd anywhere any more.

I'm sure we have.

> But I'm too lazy and/or incompetent to write up some trivial script to check.

There are a few people out there who are constantly trying to chase
those:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/microcode&id=4d2b748305e96fb76202a0d1072a285b1500bff3

is the most recent example. But obviously they miss stuff too. :)

Thanks,

        tglx