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From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] x86/fpu: Remove 'kbuf' parameter from the copy_xstate_to_user() APIs
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:23:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170130172303.GB27534@test-lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170130154521.rtmqgsqkchdvxucv@pd.tnic>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 04:45:21PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:57:28AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Would anyone object to using u32 in these prototypes?
> 
> Well, would there be any disadvantage to forcing them to u32?
> Potentially by something else wanting to use those interfaces besides
> the regset thing and that something else doesn't like u32s?
> 
> Otherwise, I don't see a problem.
> 
> I mean, if 4G are not enough for xstate dimensions then we have a whole
> different problem.

This function pair was intended to be similar to user_regset_copyout(), 
user_regset_copyin() used for the standard-format XSAVE area copying.
I totally agree it is complex and should be simplified.  Why don't we
do both places? 

Yu-cheng
 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-30 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-26 10:22 [PATCH 00/14] x86/fpu: Clean up ptrace copying functions Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 01/14] x86/fpu: Rename copyin_to_xsaves()/copyout_from_xsaves() to copy_user_to_xstate()/copy_xstate_to_user() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 02/14] x86/fpu: Split copy_xstate_to_user() into copy_xstate_to_kernel() & copy_xstate_to_user() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 03/14] x86/fpu: Remove 'ubuf' parameter from the copy_xstate_to_kernel() APIs Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 04/14] x86/fpu: Remove 'kbuf' parameter from the copy_xstate_to_user() APIs Ingo Molnar
2017-01-27 10:16   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-30  9:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-30 15:45       ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-30 17:23         ` Yu-cheng Yu [this message]
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 05/14] x86/fpu: Clean up parameter order in the copy_xstate_to_*() APIs Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 06/14] x86/fpu: Clean up the parameter definitions of copy_xstate_to_*() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 07/14] x86/fpu: Remove the 'start_pos' parameter from the __copy_xstate_to_*() functions Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 08/14] x86/fpu: Clarify parameter names in the copy_xstate_to_*() methods Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 09/14] x86/fpu: Change 'size_total' parameter to unsigned and standardize the size checks in copy_xstate_to_*() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-30 17:11   ` Yu-cheng Yu
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 10/14] x86/fpu: Simplify __copy_xstate_to_kernel() return values Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86/fpu: Split copy_user_to_xstate() into copy_kernel_to_xstate() & copy_user_to_xstate() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-27 10:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86/fpu: Remove 'ubuf' parameter from the copy_kernel_to_xstate() API Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 13/14] x86/fpu: Remove 'kbuf' parameter from the copy_user_to_xstate() API Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:22 ` [PATCH 14/14] x86/fpu: Flip the parameter order in copy_*_to_xstate() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 10:28 ` [PATCH 00/14] x86/fpu: Clean up ptrace copying functions Ingo Molnar

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