Re: [PATCH 00/10] Migrate syscall entry/exit work to SYSCALL_WORK flagset

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Nov 15 2020 - 13:50:47 EST


On Fri, Nov 13 2020 at 22:29, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> This a refactor work moving the work done by features like seccomp,
> ptrace, audit and tracepoints out of the TI flags. The reasons are:
>
> 1) Scarcity of TI flags in x86 32-bit.
>
> 2) TI flags are defined by the architecture, while these features are
> arch-independent.
>
> 3) Community resistance in merging new architecture-independent
> features as TI flags.
>
> The design exposes a new field in struct thread_info that is read at
> syscall_trace_enter and syscall_work_exit in place of the ti flags.
> No functional changes is expected from this patchset. The design and
> organization of this patchset achieves the following goals:

Aside of the few nitpicks, this looks good. Thanks for doing this!

tglx