Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3

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Le 04/09/2020 à 23:01, David Laight a écrit :
From: Alexey Dobriyan
Sent: 04 September 2020 18:58

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 08:00:24AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
this series removes the last set_fs() used to force a kernel address
space for the uaccess code in the kernel read/write/splice code, and then
stops implementing the address space overrides entirely for x86 and
powerpc.

Cool! For the x86 bits:

   Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

set_fs() is older than some kernel hackers!

	$ cd linux-0.11/
	$ find . -type f -name '*.h' | xargs grep -e set_fs -w -n -A3
	./include/asm/segment.h:61:extern inline void set_fs(unsigned long val)
	./include/asm/segment.h-62-{
	./include/asm/segment.h-63-     __asm__("mov %0,%%fs"::"a" ((unsigned short) val));
	./include/asm/segment.h-64-}

What is this strange %fs register you are talking about.
Figure 2-4 only has CS, DS, SS and ES.


Intel added registers FS and GS in the i386

Christophe



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