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From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
	Al Viro <[email protected]>,
	Felix Kuehling <[email protected]>,
	Alex Deucher <[email protected]>,
	Zhenyu Wang <[email protected]>,
	Zhi Wang <[email protected]>, Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>,
	Jason Wang <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 08:43:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:31:58AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for
> kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose
> of kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't.  That has lead to a huge
> mess where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said
> architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring
> try to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial
> asignment to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures.
> 
> Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the
> previous value instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> [vhost]
> ---

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> [usb]

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-16  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-16  5:31 improve use_mm / unuse_mm v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  5:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  5:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  6:43   ` Greg KH
2020-04-16  5:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  6:43   ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-04-17  3:17 ` improve use_mm / unuse_mm v2 Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-17  6:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-17 14:25 ` Jens Axboe

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