Re: Q: does force_iret() make any sense today?

[Brian Gerst]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:31 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I do not pretend I understand the arch/x86/entry/ code, but it seems that
> asm does all the necessary checks and the "extra" TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME simply
> has no effect except tracehook_notify_resume() will be called for no reason?

It's a relic of a time before the more robust checks for
SYSRET/SYSEXIT were added.  The idea was to divert the syscall return
flow off the fast path.  Even if no exit work was done, the slow path
always returned with IRET.  But with all the entry rework that has
been done it is no longer needed and can be removed.

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Brian Gerst