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From: jc@eclis•ch (Jean-Christian de Rivaz)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Disable CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY in Atmel config.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:59:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560AFBC2.5050000@eclis.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150929203554.GH3982@pengutronix.de>

Le 29. 09. 15 22:35, Uwe Kleine-K?nig a ?crit :
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:03:07PM +0200, jc at eclis.ch wrote:
>> From: Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc@eclis•ch>
>>
>> According to Russell King:
>> In any case, unless you have a Marvell platform, you should have this
>> disabled - it provides a performance boost for Marvell platforms, but
>> degrades performance everywhere else.  Please ensure that you disable
>> CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc@eclis•ch>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig |    2 +-
>>   arch/arm/configs/sama5_defconfig   |    2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig
>> index 090c5b2..1807d7f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig
>> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ CONFIG_SOC_SAM_V4_V5=y
>>   CONFIG_SOC_AT91RM9200=y
>>   CONFIG_SOC_AT91SAM9=y
>>   CONFIG_AEABI=y
>> -CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY=y
>> +# CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY is not set
>>   CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x0
>>   CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0x0
>>   CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB=y
> What is the reason to add the "# ... is not set" line? Given the default
> line of UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY I suggest to just drop the line without
> replacement in the defconfigs.
>

Hi Uwe,

Without the explicit disabling, the user will be asked and could 
possibly give the wrong answer as the help look as a cool feature and 
the condition is very hard to understand.

Regards,
Jean-Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-29 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-29 20:03 [PATCH 1/1] Disable CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY in Atmel config jc at eclis.ch
2015-09-29 20:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2015-09-29 20:35 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-09-29 20:59   ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz [this message]
2015-09-29 22:01     ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-09-29 22:18       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-29 22:53         ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-09-29 23:19           ` Nicolas Pitre
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-29 22:32 jc at eclis.ch
2015-09-30  6:10 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-09-30 10:13   ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz

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