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

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:32 AM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
[off-list ref] 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@kernel.org>