Re: clean up address limit helpers v2

2020-07-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 04:49:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:54:59 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > in preparation for eventually phasing out direct use of set_fs(), this > > series removes the segment_eq() arch helper that is only used to > > imple

Re: clean up address limit helpers v2

2020-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:54:59 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > in preparation for eventually phasing out direct use of set_fs(), this > series removes the segment_eq() arch helper that is only used to > implement or duplicate the uaccess_kernel() API, and then adds > descriptive helpe

Re: clean up address limit helpers

2020-07-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:09 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:25:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Ack. All the patches looked like no-ops to me, but with better naming > > and clarity. > > Is that a formal Acked-by? Yup, the patch series looks fine to me, and i

Re: clean up address limit helpers

2020-07-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:25:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 6:57 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > in preparation for eventually phasing out direct use of set_fs(), this > > series removes the segment_eq() arch helper that is only used to > > implement or duplicate

Re: clean up address limit helpers

2020-07-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 6:57 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > in preparation for eventually phasing out direct use of set_fs(), this > series removes the segment_eq() arch helper that is only used to > implement or duplicate the uaccess_kernel() API, and then adds > descriptive helpers to force the