Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/9] uaccess: Convert INLINE_COPY_{TO/FROM}_USER to kconfig and reduce ifdefery
From: Andrew Cooper <hidden>
Date: 2026-04-27 20:39:46
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On 27/04/2026 7:39 pm, Yury Norov wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 07:13:43PM +0200, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:quoted
Among the 21 architectures supported by the kernel, 16 define both INLINE_COPY_TO_USER and INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER while the 5 other ones don't define any of the two. To simplify and reduce risk of mistakes, convert them to a single kconfig item named CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_NOINLINE_COPY which will beWe've got a special word for it: outline. Can you name it CONFIG_OUTLINE_USERCOPY, or similar?
You can't swap the "in" for "out" like this. "out of line" is the opposite of "inline" in this context, while "outline" means something different and unrelated. ~Andrew