Re: [PATCH] ix86: really make user_mode() work correctly for VM86 mode

[Andy Lutomirski]

On May 28, 2015 1:16 AM, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While commit efa7045103 ("x86/asm/entry: Make user_mode() work
> correctly if regs came from VM86 mode") claims that "user_mode() is now
> identical to user_mode_vm()", this wasn't actually the case - no prior
> commit made it so.

That's embarrassing!  I'm not sure how I screwed that up.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is needed for x86/urgent.  I'll see if I can write a simple test
case, too.  My old do_bounds test should be a good start.

--Andy
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