Kees,

[heavily trimmed CC list because I think lkml is ignoring this
thread...]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 09:03:55AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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Kees,

Kees Cook [off-list ref] writes:

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This is the infrastructure changes to prepare the tasklet API for
conversion to passing the tasklet struct as the callback argument instead
of an arbitrary unsigned long. The first patch details why this is useful
(it's the same rationale as the timer_struct changes from a bit ago:
less abuse during memory corruption attacks, more in line with existing
ways of doing things in the kernel, save a little space in struct,
etc). Notably, the existing tasklet API use is much less messy, so there
is less to clean up.

It's not clear to me which tree this should go through... Greg since it
starts with a USB clean-up, -tip for timer or interrupt, or if I should
just carry it. I'm open to suggestions, but if I don't hear otherwise,
I'll just carry it.

My goal is to have this merged for v5.9-rc1 so that during the v5.10
development cycle the new API will be available. The entire tree of
changes is here[1] currently, but to split it up by maintainer the
infrastructure changes need to be landed first.

Review and Acks appreciated! :)

I'd rather see tasklets vanish from the planet completely, but that's
going to be a daring feat. So, grudgingly:

Understood! I will update the comments near the tasklet API.

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Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>

Here's the series re-based on top of 5.8
https://github.com/allenpais/tasklets/tree/V3

Let me know how you would want these to be reviewed.

Also, I was thinking if removing tasklets completely could be a task
on KSPP wiki. If yes, I did like to take ownership of that task. I have a
couple of ideas in mind, which could be discussed in a separate email.

Thanks.

-- 
       - Allen