[PATCH 05/19] KVM: arm64: Consolidate sysreg userspace accesses
Oliver Upton
oliver.upton at linux.dev
Fri Jul 8 12:33:49 PDT 2022
Hi Marc,
On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 05:42:50PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Until now, the .set_user and .get_user callbacks have to implement
> (directly or not) the userspace memory accesses. Although this gives
> us maximem flexibility, this is also a maintenance burden, making it
typo: maximum
> hard to audit, and I'd feel much better if it was all located in
> a single place.
>
> So let's do just that, simplifying most of the function signatures
> in the process (the callbacks are now only concerned with the
> data itself, and not with userspace).
Much cleaner!
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
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