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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Alexey Dobriyan' <adobriyan@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Michael Ellerman" <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: RE: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 21:01:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63f3c9342a784a0890b3b641a71a8aa1@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200904175823.GA500051@localhost.localdomain>
From: Alexey Dobriyan
> Sent: 04 September 2020 18:58
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 08:00:24AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > > this series removes the last set_fs() used to force a kernel address
> > > space for the uaccess code in the kernel read/write/splice code, and then
> > > stops implementing the address space overrides entirely for x86 and
> > > powerpc.
> >
> > Cool! For the x86 bits:
> >
> > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>
> set_fs() is older than some kernel hackers!
>
> $ cd linux-0.11/
> $ find . -type f -name '*.h' | xargs grep -e set_fs -w -n -A3
> ./include/asm/segment.h:61:extern inline void set_fs(unsigned long val)
> ./include/asm/segment.h-62-{
> ./include/asm/segment.h-63- __asm__("mov %0,%%fs"::"a" ((unsigned short) val));
> ./include/asm/segment.h-64-}
What is this strange %fs register you are talking about.
Figure 2-4 only has CS, DS, SS and ES.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-04 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-03 14:22 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 01/14] proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 02/14] proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 03/14] proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 04/14] sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 05/14] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-01 22:38 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-01 22:40 ` Al Viro
2020-10-02 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-09 22:06 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10 1:19 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10 1:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10 1:55 ` Alexander Viro
2020-10-14 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 06/14] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 07/14] uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 08/14] test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 09/14] lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 10/14] x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE & friends to page_{32,64}_types.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 21:30 ` David Laight
2020-09-03 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 7:59 ` David Laight
2020-09-04 2:55 ` Al Viro
2020-09-04 4:41 ` Al Viro
2020-09-04 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 13/14] powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 14/14] powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:43 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 15:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 16:03 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 14:28 ` remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3 Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:36 ` Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-09 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-09 18:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-09 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10 8:04 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 8:13 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-10 9:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 12:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 15:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:31 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 17:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-03 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 6:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-09-04 17:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2020-09-04 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 21:01 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-09-05 7:16 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-05 10:13 ` David Laight
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