Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:25 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just thought up this variant, I'm about to test it, but H.J., do you
> see any problems with it?

Looks good to me. And we already use __builtin_choose_expr(), so it's
"portable". And it should avoid all the potential issues with
bitfields (rmk already pointed out how bitfields don't work well with
the ARM model, who knows what other pitfalls bitfield code generation
could have)

I wonder if we could/should eventually do some of the sizeof() in
generic code - not have these magic things duplicated in all the
architectures, just have the architectures specify the raw typed
details (__copy_to_user_4() etc). So cross-platform portability could
be a good thing. That's a separate discussion, though, and possibly
not worth it.

                      Linus
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