Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc shmctl compat

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 25 2017 - 22:03:40 EST


On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FWIW, __percpu and __rcu annotations are messy as hell. Never got around
> to sorting down the infrastructure annotations for that bunch, and I'm
> not entirely sure that they (especially __rcu) are a good match for
> __address_space__(()).

I agree. It might be better to just remove the address space logic,
because afaik it never worked for them.

Linus