From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] x86/fpu: Clean up error handling in sigframe related code
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:51:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s0ihikr.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiWxv7baa91W_0CXFtG+FW_Obp5Y=4BqZD7EZ+nqcRvqg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 30 2021 at 10:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 9:27 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> The following series cleans this up. As a side effect the resulting text
>> size of fpu/signal.o shrinks by about 150 bytes.
>
> Well, some of the patches in the middle were confusing because of how
> 0/ERROR was mixing with a success true/false thing, but the end result
> seems to be a whole lot more sensible.
Yes, I know. I tried various approaches but they mostly ended up being
unreviewable because they changed too many things at once.
So at the end I went for this step wise approach which seemed to be
manageable at least for my restricted brain capacity.
Thanks,
tglx
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-30 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-30 16:27 [patch 00/10] x86/fpu: Clean up error handling in sigframe related code Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 01/10] x86/fpu/signal: Clarify exception handling in restore_fpregs_from_user() Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 19:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-30 20:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-30 20:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 21:02 ` Al Viro
2021-08-30 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-30 21:30 ` Al Viro
2021-08-30 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-30 22:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-31 0:06 ` Al Viro
2021-08-31 0:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-31 7:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-31 18:39 ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-01 7:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-30 22:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 22:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-01 12:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-09-01 15:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-09-01 16:47 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-01 19:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-09-01 19:22 ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-02 13:08 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-02 14:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-09-03 6:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-03 6:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 02/10] x86/fpu/signal: Move header zeroing out of xsave_to_user_sigframe() Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 03/10] x86/fpu/signal: Move xstate clearing out of copy_fpregs_to_sigframe() Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 04/10] x86/fpu/signal: Change return type of copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() to boolean Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 05/10] x86/fpu/signal: Change return type of copy_fpregs_to_sigframe() helpers " Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 06/10] x86/signal: Change return type of restore_sigcontext() " Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 07/10] x86/fpu/signal: Change return type of fpu__restore_sig() " Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 08/10] x86/fpu/signal: Change return type of __fpu_restore_sig() " Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 09/10] x86/fpu/signal: Change return code of check_xstate_in_sigframe() " Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 16:27 ` [patch 10/10] x86/fpu/signal: Change return code of restore_fpregs_from_user() " Thomas Gleixner
2021-08-30 17:39 ` [patch 00/10] x86/fpu: Clean up error handling in sigframe related code Linus Torvalds
2021-08-30 18:51 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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