From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] asm-generic: fix unaligned access hamdling in raw_copy_{from,to}_user
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:06:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200904180617.GQ1236603@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200904165216.1799796-4-hch@lst.de>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 06:52:11PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use get_unaligned and put_unaligned for the small constant size cases
> in the generic uaccess routines. This ensures they can be used for
> architectures that do not support unaligned loads and stores, while
> being a no-op for those that do.
Frankly, I would rather get rid of those constant-sized cases entirely;
sure, we'd need to adjust asm-generic/uaccess.h defaults for __get_user(),
but there that kind of stuff would make sense; in raw_copy_from_user()
it really doesn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-04 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-04 16:52 remove set_fs for riscv Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 1/8] maccess: add a generic __{get,put}_kernel_nofault for nommu Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/8] uaccess: provide a generic TASK_SIZE_MAX definition Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/8] asm-generic: fix unaligned access hamdling in raw_copy_{from,to}_user Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 18:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-05 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 18:06 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-09-04 22:35 ` Al Viro
2020-09-05 14:41 ` Al Viro
2020-09-07 8:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 3/8] asm-generic: fix unaligned access hamdling in raw_copy_{from, to}_user Sean Anderson
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/8] asm-generic: prepare uaccess.h for a set_fs-less world Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 5/8] riscv: use memcpy based uaccess for nommu again Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 6/8] riscv: refactor __get_user and __put_user Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 7/8] riscv: implement __get_kernel_nofault and __put_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 16:52 ` [PATCH 8/8] riscv: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 18:15 ` remove set_fs for riscv Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-05 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-05 12:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-06 22:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-07 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-07 14:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
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