linux/arch/alpha
Linus Torvalds 736706bee3 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>
2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
..
boot kbuild: Rename HOSTCFLAGS to KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS 2018-07-18 01:18:05 +09:00
include get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
kernel Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
lib Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
math-emu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm alpha: fix page fault handling for r16-r18 targets 2019-02-10 20:42:23 -08:00
oprofile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
defconfig alpha: defconfig: Cleanup from old Kconfig options 2017-09-04 12:04:33 -07:00
Kconfig Kconfig file consolidation for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:40:29 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: consolidate the "Kernel hacking" menu 2018-08-02 08:06:48 +09:00
Makefile alpha: generate uapi header and syscall table header files 2018-12-21 11:57:56 -05:00