Re: [PATCH] microblaze: remove CONFIG_SET_FS

[Stafford Horne]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 03:54:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:44 PM Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2/9/22 15:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:50 PM Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi Arnd,
> > >>
> > >> po 17. 1. 2022 v 14:28 odesílatel Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> napsal:
> > >>>
> > >>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >>>
> > >>> I picked microblaze as one of the architectures that still
> > >>> use set_fs() and converted it not to.
> > >>
> > >> Can you please update the commit message because what is above is not
> > >> the right one?
> > >
> > > Ah, sorry about that. I think you can copy from the openrisc patch,
> > > see https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220208064905.199632-1-shorne@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Please do it. You are the author of this patch and we should follow the process.
> 
> Done.
> 
> Looking at it again, I wonder if it would help to use the __get_kernel_nofault()
> and __get_kernel_nofault() helpers as the default in
> include/asm-generic/uaccess.h.

That would make sense.  Perhaps also the __range_ok() function from OpenRISC
could move there as I think other architectures would also want to use that.

> I see it's identical to the openrisc version and would probably be the same
> for some of the other architectures that have no other use for
> set_fs(). That may
> help to do a bulk remove of set_fs for alpha, arc, csky, h8300, hexagon, nds32,
> nios2, um and extensa, leaving only ia64, sparc and sh.

If you could add it into include/asm-generic/uaccess.h I can test changing my
patch to use it.

-Stafford