Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/9] uaccess: Convert INLINE_COPY_{TO/FROM}_USER to kconfig and reduce ifdefery

Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:36:09 +0100
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On 27/04/2026 9:47 pm, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 09:39:33PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 27/04/2026 7:39 pm, Yury Norov wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 07:13:43PM +0200, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
>>>> Among the 21 architectures supported by the kernel, 16 define both
>>>> INLINE_COPY_TO_USER and INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER while the 5 other ones
>>>> don't define any of the two.
>>>>
>>>> To simplify and reduce risk of mistakes, convert them to a single
>>>> kconfig item named CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_NOINLINE_COPY which will be
>>> We've got a special word for it: outline. Can you name it
>>> CONFIG_OUTLINE_USERCOPY, or similar?
>> You can't swap the "in" for "out" like this.  "out of line" is the
>> opposite of "inline" in this context, while "outline" means something
>> different and unrelated.
> Check KASAN_OUTLINE vs KASAN_INLINE for example

Then I suggest it gets corrected before more examples try to copy this
non-english.

~Andrew