On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 9:05 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 12:59:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Assuming it won't be too much longer before the rest of the arches have
> > set_fs/get_fs removed it looks like it makes sense to leave the
> > force_uaccess_begin where it is, and just let force_uaccess_begin be
> > removed when set_fs/get_fs are removed from the tree.
> >
> > Christoph does it look like the set_fs/get_fs removal work is going
> > to stall indefinitely on some architectures? If so I think we want to
> > find a way to get kernel threads to run with set_fs(USER_DS) on the
> > stalled architectures. Otherwise I think we have a real hazard of
> > introducing bugs that will only show up on the stalled architectures.
>
> I really need help from the arch maintainers to finish the set_fs
> removal. There have been very few arch maintainers helping with that
> work (arm, arm64, parisc, m68k) in addition to the ones I did because
> I have the test setups and knowledge. I'll send out another ping,
> for necrotic architectures like ia64 and sh I have very little hope.
I did a conversion of microblaze for fun at some point, and I think I never
sent that out. I haven't tested it, but if this looks correct to you and
Michal, it could serve as a model for other trivial conversions.
I also looked into converting ia64 and sh at the same time, but I can't
find those patches now, so I think they were never complete.
Arnd
