Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:19:08 -0800

On 01/14/2014 05:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>
>> This seems terribly broken, the *futex_value*() ops should not need
>> that; they are supposed to access userspace without any of that.
> 
> Why don't they need set_fs(USER_DS)?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert

Because USER_DS is the normal operating state?  It would appear m68k is
the only(?) arch that calls initcalls with get_fs() == KERNEL_DS...

	-hpa