On Thu, 23 Jan 2020, Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> wrote: > On 32 bits powerPC (book3s/32), only write accesses to user are > protected and there is no point spending time on unlocking for reads. > > On 64 bits powerpc (book3s/64 at least), access can be granted > read only, write only or read/write. > > Add an argument to user_access_begin() to tell when it's for write and > return an opaque key that will be used by user_access_end() to know > what was done by user_access_begin().
IMHO an opaque key is a prime example of a case where the use of an opaque typedef is warranted. Nobody needs to know or care it's specifically an unsigned long. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
