rename probe_kernel_* and probe_user_*

[Helge Deller]

On 18.06.20 21:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ Explicitly added architecture lists and developers to the cc to make
> this more visible ]
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:38 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>>
>> Andrew and I decided to drop the patches implementing your suggested
>> rename of the probe_kernel_* and probe_user_* helpers from -mm as there
>> were way to many conflicts.  After -rc1 might be a good time for this as
>> all the conflicts are resolved now.
>
> So I've merged this renaming now, together with my changes to make
> 'get_kernel_nofault()' look and act a lot more like 'get_user()'.
>
> It just felt wrong (and potentially dangerous) to me to have a
> 'get_kernel_nofault()' naming that implied semantics that we're all
> familiar with from 'get_user()', but acting very differently.
>
> But part of the fixups I made for the type checking are for
> architectures where I didn't even compile-test the end result. I
> looked at every case individually, and the patch looks sane, but I
> could have screwed something up.
>
> Basically, 'get_kernel_nofault()' doesn't do the same automagic type
> munging from the pointer to the target that 'get_user()' does, but at
> least now it checks that the types are superficially compatible.
> There should be build failures if they aren't, but I hopefully fixed
> everything up properly for all architectures.
>
> This email is partly to ask people to double-check, but partly just as
> a heads-up so that _if_ I screwed something up, you'll have the
> background and it won't take you by surprise.

Linus. thanks for the heads-up!
With your change it compiles cleanly on 32- and 64-bit parisc.

Helge