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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	hskinnemoen@gmail.com,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>,
	Miao Steven <realmz6@gmail.com>, Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>,
	"JACQUIOT-XID, Aurelien" <a-jacquiot@ti.com>,
	Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux>
Subject: Re: Remove execution domain support
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:25:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428794717.18187.174.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55298E4F.50502@nod.at>

On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 23:12 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 11.04.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> >>
> >> The removal will make architecutre specific signal handling easier
> >> and there is no need to keep execuction domains as this feature is
> >> obviously incomplete and abandoned
> > 
> > Ack. The whole exec domain made some code code pretty inscrutable.
> > 
> > So I'd certainly be willing to pull this during the 4.1 merge window
> > if nobody complains.
> > 
> > Anybody?
> 
> It would be great to have an Ack from sparc folks.
> I had to recalculate the values of their TI_* constants
> and I don't have a sparc box to test it.

That's what qemu is for :-)

> Using asm-offsets.c for that seems to be impossible on sparc
> as sparc's asm-offsets.c depends on sched.h which depends again
> on thread_info.h...
> Resolving this circular dependency without the ability to run-time
> test my changes was too risky for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> //richard
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	hskinnemoen@gmail.com,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>,
	Miao Steven <realmz6@gmail.com>, Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>,
	"JACQUIOT-XID, Aurelien" <a-jacquiot@ti.com>,
	Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>, Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	liqin.linux@gmail.com, Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	cmetcalf@ezchip.com, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Remove execution domain support
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:25:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428794717.18187.174.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20150411232517.zjf3Au4ZZA8scXgUj3qkQso86vBvnNoJajeu9v6-NkM@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55298E4F.50502@nod.at>

On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 23:12 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 11.04.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> >>
> >> The removal will make architecutre specific signal handling easier
> >> and there is no need to keep execuction domains as this feature is
> >> obviously incomplete and abandoned
> > 
> > Ack. The whole exec domain made some code code pretty inscrutable.
> > 
> > So I'd certainly be willing to pull this during the 4.1 merge window
> > if nobody complains.
> > 
> > Anybody?
> 
> It would be great to have an Ack from sparc folks.
> I had to recalculate the values of their TI_* constants
> and I don't have a sparc box to test it.

That's what qemu is for :-)

> Using asm-offsets.c for that seems to be impossible on sparc
> as sparc's asm-offsets.c depends on sched.h which depends again
> on thread_info.h...
> Resolving this circular dependency without the ability to run-time
> test my changes was too risky for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> //richard
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-11 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-11 20:47 Remove execution domain support Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 01/24] arm: Remove RISC OS personality Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 02/24] ia64: Remove Linux/x86 exec domain support Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 03/24] Remove execution " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 04/24] arm: Remove signal translation and exec_domain Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 05/24] arm64: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-13 13:52   ` Thierry Reding
2015-04-13 13:52     ` Thierry Reding
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 06/24] blackfin: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 07/24] blackfin: Remove exec_domain usage Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 08/24] frv: Remove signal translation and exec_domain Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 09/24] m32r: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 10/24] m32r: Remove signal translation and exec_domain Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 11/24] m68k: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-14  7:48   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-04-14  7:48     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 12/24] microblaze: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 13/24] mn10300: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 14/24] s390: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 15/24] sh: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 16/24] sparc: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 17/24] tile: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 18/24] um: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 19/24] unicore32: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47 ` [PATCH 20/24] x86: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:47   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48 ` [PATCH 21/24] xtensa: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48 ` [PATCH 22/24] arc: " Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48 ` [PATCH 23/24] arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-13  8:19   ` Jesper Nilsson
2015-04-13  8:19     ` Jesper Nilsson
2015-04-13 16:57   ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2015-04-13 16:57     ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2015-04-11 20:48 ` [PATCH 24/24] Remove rest of exec domains Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:48   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 20:52 ` Remove execution domain support Linus Torvalds
2015-04-11 20:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-11 21:04   ` Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:04     ` Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:08     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 21:08       ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 21:12   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 21:12     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-11 22:31     ` David Miller
2015-04-11 22:31       ` David Miller
2015-04-11 23:25     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-04-11 23:25       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-11 23:30   ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-04-11 23:30     ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-04-12  0:06     ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-04-12  0:06       ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-04-12  2:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-12 20:57 ` Remove execution domain support v2 Richard Weinberger
2015-04-12 20:57   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-12 21:13   ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-04-12 21:13     ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-04-12 21:17     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-12 21:17       ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-12 21:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-12 21:56         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-12 22:06         ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-12 22:06           ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-12 22:57   ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-12 22:57     ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-14  1:21 ` Remove execution domain support Andy Lutomirski

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