Re: [PATCH 00/10] android: binder: support for domains and scatter-gather.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:56:04PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> wrote:
> > Android userspace will start using binder IPC for communication with HAL
> > modules. To clearly separate this IPC domain from the existing framework
> > IPC domain, this patch series adds support for multiple "binder domains".
> > This is implemented by each domain having its own binder context manager,
> > and then having a separate device node per domain.
> >
> > The other change introduced by this series is scatter-gather; currently
> > all objects passed through binder IPC must be serialized in userspace, with
> > with the exception of binder objects and file descriptors. By adding scatter-
> > gather support for memory buffers, we can avoid the serialization copy,
> > thereby increasing performance for larger transaction sizes.
> >
> > The two patches from Arve are security patches that we've already applied
> > in android-common. I included them in front of the series because my changes
> > touch quite some of that code.
> 
> Hey Greg,
>    Curious what the status of these patches are? Did you have any
> outstanding objection, or were you just waiting for them to be resent?
> 
> AOSP is now making use of this feature, so mainline kernels have
> trouble booting w/o it, so it would be good to get merged. :)

The patches that ended up in AOSP are a bit different from this series
from what I remember, which is why I didn't end up applying this series
at the time (it needed more work.)  If you could dig up the latest
versions, I'll be glad to review/merge them as well.

There's also the 'hwbinder' work that should be in AOSP also, that
should get merged too.

thanks,

greg k-h