On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:27:10PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:

There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Overall I'm in favor of this patch, and it's close to what I had in
mind in the commit message for
00b73d8d1b7131da03aec73011a7286f566fe87f. But I'd actually like to see
it go further. These ops are mainly (only?) used for the (almost never
used) FUTEX_WAKE_OP operation, and there's very little sense in trying
to optimize them with dedicated arch-specific forms like "lock xadd".
Instead the entire logic should be in an arch-generic file, and all
the arch should need to provide is a cmpxchg-on-user-memory primitive
for it to use. On most archs, the same cmpxchg used in kernelspace
should also work for user addresses, meaning a huge amount of
unmaintained, largely untested, junk code can be removed.

Rich