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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
arch get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
block for-linus-20190215 2019-02-15 09:12:28 -08:00
certs
crypto net: crypto set sk to NULL when af_alg_release. 2019-02-18 12:01:24 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-24 09:28:26 -08:00
drivers get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
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fs get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
include get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
init revert "initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs" 2019-02-21 09:00:59 -08:00
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kernel bpf: fix sanitation rewrite in case of non-pointers 2019-03-01 21:24:08 -08:00
lib kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier 2019-03-01 09:02:33 -08:00
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mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-01 09:04:59 -08:00
net net: sit: fix memory leak in sit_init_net() 2019-03-02 00:53:23 -08:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-01-30 15:24:45 +01:00
scripts kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier 2019-03-01 09:02:33 -08:00
security get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0 2019-02-20 09:42:52 -08:00
tools selftests: fixes for UDP GRO 2019-03-01 11:24:00 -08:00
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virt kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it 2019-02-28 08:57:32 -08:00
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Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-24 09:28:26 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0 2019-03-03 15:21:29 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.