From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: josh@joshtriplett.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] x86: Support compiling out userspace I/O (iopl and ioperm)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:20:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545121DC.5050305@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029171754.GA18888@cloud>
On 10/29/2014 10:17 AM, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
>>
>> But this is entirely a style decision, so I leave it up to the x86
>> maintainers ...
>
> I can certainly do that if the x86 maintainers prefer, but that tends to
> produce a net increase in lines of code, as well as duplicating all the
> function prototypes, which to me seems more error-prone. If the
> stub versions contained any code, rather than just becoming no-ops, I'd
> definitely do that.
>
I concur with this style choice.
>> Another nit may be that we should call this CONFIG_SYSCALL_IOPL or
>> CONFIG_SYSCALL_IOPERM in keeping with the other CONFIG_SYSCALL_*
>> naming thread? Again, I don't really care strongly beyond really
>> wanting to use this new feature! :)
>
> I don't feel strongly about the naming. Ingo?
It is sort of a special case here, as this reflects more than one syscall.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-29 16:02 [PATCH v3 1/3] x86: process: Unify 32-bit and 64-bit copy_thread I/O bitmap handling Josh Triplett
2014-10-29 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] x86: tss: Eliminate fragile calculation of TSS segment limit Josh Triplett
2014-10-29 16:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] x86: Support compiling out userspace I/O (iopl and ioperm) Josh Triplett
2014-10-29 16:59 ` Kees Cook
2014-10-29 17:17 ` josh
2014-10-29 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-10-29 17:58 ` josh
2014-10-29 21:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-01 19:41 ` Josh Triplett
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