On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:31:58AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for > kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose > of kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't. That has lead to a huge > mess where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said > architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring > try to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial > asignment to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures. > > Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the > previous value instead. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> [vhost] > --- Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [usb] _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
