From: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, tglx@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, luto@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com, pmladek@suse.com,
lance.yang@linux.dev, marc.herbert@linux.intel.com,
kees@kernel.org, leitao@debian.org, joel.granados@kernel.org,
lirongqing@baidu.com, nathan@kernel.org, xur@google.com,
lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] syscall_user_dispatch: Make it configurable in Kconfig
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 11:29:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akkmv2fRxJIsbxq9@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <akklLLPZ1fbcZRML@casper.infradead.org>
On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 04:22:20PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 09:58:58PM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> > +config SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH
> > + bool "Syscall User Dispatch"
> > + depends on GENERIC_ENTRY
> > + default y
> > + help
> > + Syscall User Dispatch lets a thread have its own system calls outside
> > + an allowed IP address range to be intercepted and redirected to a
> > + userspace signal handler.
>
> I was very confused when I read this. IP expands to Internet Protocol
> long before it gets to Instruction Pointer in my brain.
Hah, fair, i was just going with tglx's [1] explanation.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/87a4s8m69c.ffs@fw13/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-04 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-04 1:58 [PATCH v2 0/2] syscall_user_dispatch: add build/runtime configs Gregory Price
2026-07-04 1:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] syscall_user_dispatch: Make it configurable in Kconfig Gregory Price
2026-07-04 15:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-07-04 15:29 ` Gregory Price [this message]
2026-07-05 21:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-07-06 0:11 ` Gregory Price
2026-07-05 20:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-07-06 0:10 ` Gregory Price
2026-07-04 1:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] syscall_user_dispatch: add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl Gregory Price
2026-07-05 20:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-07-06 0:07 ` Gregory Price
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