[PATCH 1/3] futex: remove duplicated code

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com
Fri Mar 3 06:08:37 PST 2017


On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:27:10PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
> futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
> and comparison of the result.
> 
> Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
> assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.
> 
> Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
> remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
> We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
> optimized away anyway).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
> ---
>  arch/s390/include/asm/futex.h       | 23 ++++-------------
>  include/asm-generic/futex.h         | 50 +++++++------------------------------
>  kernel/futex.c                      | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Looks good to me and still boots on s390. Therefore for the s390 bits:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>

Thanks!




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