Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] Syscall User Dispatch

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 19:06:01 EST


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:32 AM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is v8 of syscall user dispatch. Last version got some acks but
> there was one small documentation fix I wanted to do, as requested by
> Florian. This also addresses the commit message fixup Peter requested.
>
> The only actual code change from v7 is solving a trivial merge conflict
> I myself created with the entry code fixup I made week and with
> something else in the TIP tree.
>
> I also shared this with glibc and there wasn't any complaints other than
> the matter about user-notif vs. siginfo, which was discussed in v7 and
> the understanding is that it is not necessary now and can be added
> later, if needed, on the same infrastructure without a new api.
>
> I'm not sure about TIP the rules, but is it too late to be queued for
> the next merge window? I'd love to have this in 5.11 if possible, since
> it has been flying for quite a while.
>

Other than my little nitpick about on_syscall_dispatch(), the whole series is:

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>