get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function
Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as an actual define, or as an inline function). It's an entirely historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86. Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS. Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script. I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining gunk. Roughly scripted with git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/' git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d' plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale. The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user space it actually does something relevant. Inspired-by:Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Inspired-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- arch/alpha/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/alpha/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/arm/kernel/process.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/arm/kernel/process.c
- arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S 1 addition, 2 deletionsarch/arm/xen/hypercall.S
- arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/csky/include/asm/segment.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/csky/include/asm/segment.h
- arch/h8300/include/asm/segment.h 0 additions, 6 deletionsarch/h8300/include/asm/segment.h
- arch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/m68k/include/asm/segment.h 0 additions, 7 deletionsarch/m68k/include/asm/segment.h
- arch/microblaze/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/microblaze/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c 3 additions, 3 deletionsarch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c
- arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsarch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
- arch/mips/kernel/traps.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/mips/kernel/traps.c
- arch/nds32/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/nds32/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/nds32/kernel/process.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/nds32/kernel/process.c
- arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
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