remove set_fs for riscv v2
Palmer Dabbelt
palmer at dabbelt.com
Mon Sep 28 12:45:30 EDT 2020
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:49:28 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 10:50:52AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:37:52 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Given tht we've not made much progress with the common branch,
>>> are you fine just picking this up through the riscv tree for 5.10?
>>>
>>> I'll defer other architectures that depend on the common changes to
>>> 5.11 then.
>>
>> I'm OK taking it, but there's a few things I'd like to sort out. IIRC I put it
>> on a temporary branch over here
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/log/?h=riscv-remove_set_fs
>>
>> under the assumption it might get lost otherwise, but let me know if that's not
>> what you were looking for.
>
> Well, we'll want it in linux-next and then 5.10. Either a merge through
> the RISC-V maintainer, or as part of the base branch from Al would
> make sense to me.
Sorry, I guess my question was really: does that branch have all the
dependencies necessary for the RISC-V stuff to actually work? IIRC this actual
patch set depended on some other one, and while I thinK I got everything I
don't want to pull in something broken.
>> Arnd: Are you OK with the asm-generic stuff? I couldn't find anything in my
>> mail history, so sorry if I just missed it.
>>
>> Al: IIRC the plan here was to have me merge in a feature branch with this
>> stuff, but it'd have to be based on your for-next as there are some
>> dependencies over there. I see 5ae4998b5d6f ("powerpc: remove address space
>> overrides using set_fs()") in vfs/for-next so I think we should be OK, but let
>> me know if I'm doing something wrong.
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