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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/

  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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