architectures that still need to remove set_fs()
Stafford Horne
shorne at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 03:48:17 PST 2022
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 08:48:36AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> you are in this list because your architecture still implements and
> uses address space overrides using set_fs(), which are deprecated and
> have been removed from all mainstream architecture ports. To help
> cleanup the core kernel it would be great to make progress on removing
> set_fs entirely.
>
> The following steps are required:
>
> (1) implement the __get_kernel_nofault and __put_kernel_nofault
> helper to access kernel memory without page faults, replacing
> the get/put_user under set_fs(KERNEL_DS) abuse. Mips has a good
> example for a trivial implementation for architectures that use
> a common address space in commit 04324f44cb69
Also see commit 08ee3a009f49a which is preparation for removing set_fs/get_fs
this commit implements __get_kernel_nofault/__put_kernel_nofault for mips.
> (2) remove any architecture specific use of such constructs. This
> only affects ia64 and sh.
> (3) stop selecting the SET_FS and remove all the set_fs-related
> infrastructure. The above mips commit is a good guide once again.
>
> Thanks!
I will look into this for OpenRISC.
-Stafford
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