On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:23 PM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For -rc, I would favor the following simpler approach. Or I could even
> just use get_user() instead. Thoughts ?
Please just use "get_user()".
In fact, we should be thinking seriosly about just removing
__get_user() entirely. It's wrong. It optimizes the wrong thing
entirely. It _used_ to be that the range check was noticeable, and it
really isn't any more. These days the expensive parts are the SMAP
costs, and both get_user() and __get_user() have those, except
get_user() is safer and doesn't waste I$ on inlining the code to
disable and re-enable SMAP.
Linus
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