From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 18:12:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170513171249.GY390@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170513170056.GX390@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 06:00:56PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > But I don't see the excuse for not just doing it. If nobody notices,
> > it's an obvious improvement. And if somebody *does* notice, we know
> > how to do it properly with unsafe_xyz_user(), because "__xyz_user()"
> > most definitely isn't it.
>
> I think we ought to actually look through those places - there are few
> enough of them (outside of arch/, that is) and stac/clac overhead is
> not the only problem they tend to have.
PS: just to make it clear - I do _not_ propose to keep that shit around
indefinitely; I want __get_user()/__put_user() gone by the end of that
work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-13 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-01 3:02 Linux 4.11 Linus Torvalds
2017-05-01 3:45 ` [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git Al Viro
2017-05-13 1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-05-13 6:57 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 12:05 ` Adam Borowski
2017-05-13 13:46 ` Brian Gerst
2017-05-13 13:46 ` Brian Gerst
2017-05-13 16:46 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-05-13 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-05-13 17:00 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 17:12 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-05-13 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-05-13 18:04 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 18:26 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 19:11 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 19:34 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-05-13 19:17 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 19:56 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 20:08 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 20:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-13 20:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-13 20:45 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 20:37 ` Al Viro
2017-05-13 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-05-13 21:25 ` Al Viro
2017-05-14 18:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-05-14 18:57 ` Al Viro
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