On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 09:00:12AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > How about trying to remove all of them? If we could actually get rid > > of all of them, we could drop the arch support, and we'd get faster, > > simpler, shorter uaccess code throughout the kernel. > > I'm all for that! Oh, for... Ingo, do you really want to go through all ->write() and ->read() instances, converting all of them to iov_iter? Or, better yet, deal with the patch flood from Nick Krause sock puppet brigade? Folks, seriously, have you even looked through that zoo? I have, and it's really, really not fun. Sure, we can say "fuck 'em, no need to allow splice() on random crap". Would be perfectly reasonable, expect that it's not the only place doing kernel_write() and its ilk... And converting everything to ->read_iter()/->write_iter() means an insane amount of code churn, not to mention coping with random bogosities in semantics. ->read() and ->write() are going to stay around, pretty much indefinitely. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
