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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_*
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:07:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080422130720.GA7311@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480C9F0E.30500@windriver.com>


* Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote:

> >> Still.  Do we need the set_fs() in there?  
> >> __copy_from_user_inatomic() is a "__" uaccess function and hence 
> >> shouldn't be running access_ok()?
> >
> > yeah, i guess that's true. Jason?
> 
> In so far as the testing showed, it worked ok on the X86 arch with and 
> without the set_fs(), but on ARM it is absolutely required.  This 
> means we have to decide to make arch specific or leave generic as it 
> stands right now.

yeah, i guess so - it's no big issue as this isnt performance critical 
in any way. Do you know which exact codepath/mechanism in ARM relies on 
the set_fs() being there?

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200804181742.m3IHgsoG012669@hera.kernel.org>
2008-04-18 22:48 ` kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* Andrew Morton
2008-04-21 14:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 14:05     ` Jason Wessel
2008-04-22 13:07       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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