* Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> The user_mode vs user_mode_vm distinction scares me. Let's fix it.
> This series adds user_mode_ignore_vm86, makes user_mode reliable,
> and removes user_mode_vm. It also tidies up a couple warts I found
> along the way.
>
> This survives basic testing, but I haven't tried that hard to test it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ingo, this may conflict a bit with the do_debug and do_bounds fixes.
I like it, in fact I'd suggest we remove user_mode_ignore_vm86()
altogether, as it's such a marginal optimization, it only affects
x86-32 kernels, and because we keep getting this wrong.
Keep a single, simple user_mode() definition.
Thanks,
Ingo
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