Re: [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] tracing: A few last minute clean up and ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> That "ktest-v4.17-2" tag does exist - in the tracing tree. in the tracing tree. So...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client updates for 4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I do my pulls in batches of mostly similar stuff, and the nfs pull just came in after I had done my last batch of FS pulls, so now it's waiting for the next one. FS...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 12/23] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system cal ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] array as argument. Do we really want the page pinning? Do we really want the page pinning? This whole cpu_opv thing is the most questionable part of the...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 12/23] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system cal ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] What are your concerns about page pinning ? Pretty much everything. Pretty much everything. It's the most complex part by far, and the vmalloc space is a...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] proc: fixup (c) sign
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) charset=us-ascii which is what I'd expect if Mutt has a "use the least complex charset that can fit the message". that can fit the message". If you look at my emails,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v4] proc: fixup copyright sign
Linus Torvalds writes: Yup, this came through correctly: Yup, this came through correctly: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 and the patch looks fine too....
View ArticleRe: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE v ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h deleted file mode 100644...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 12/23] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system cal ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:[...] a cpu_opv call can touch. No it's not. No it's not. You can have a...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 21/30] stack-protector: test compiler capability in Kco ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In the presense of multiple defaults, the first is picked, so this _automatically_ does that whole priority ordering. that whole priority ordering. And then the...
View ArticleRe: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE v ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] operation from the FP hardware? Note that the number of people who actually look at the si_code is approximately zero. approximately zero. But the ones that...
View ArticleRe: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE v ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I've seen code that cares about SIGFPE deeply, but it's almost invariably about some emulated environment (eg Java VM, or CPU emulation). emulation). And the siginfo...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] auxdisplay for v4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Miguel Ojeda<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> As far as I can tell, none of this has been in linux-next. As far as I can tell,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] chrome-platform updates for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bleung/chrome-platform.git tags/chrome-platform-for-linus-4.17 Please don't do this to me. Please don't do...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: re-add cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_pa ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'd rather just do it differently in shrink_dentry_list(): do it even for the empty list case by just doing it at the top of the loop: static void...
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Coming back to this now that the merge window is almost over ] Coming back to this now that the merge window is almost over ] On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:46 AM, Dmitry...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: re-add cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_pa ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I was going to say "but that doesn't even use select_collect()", but yeah, detach_and_collect() calls it. but yeah, detach_and_collect() calls it. It would be easy...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Dealing with the aliases of SI_USER
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So just clearing it is fine, the one or two places that want to set it to some silly value can do it themselves). silly value can do it themselves). Then your series...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: re-add cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_pa ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) For example, this very same code in the caller does + struct dentry *victim = NULL; + if (!victim) { but in many ways it would be more natural to just check the exit...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/35 v5] PTI support for x32
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] check what that is. All the kernel entry code that is both in the user mapping and the kernel mapping should be marked G. kernel mapping should be marked...
View ArticleRe: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] [ 884.496588] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffe8000010030 This is the LDT remap area. This is the LDT remap area.[...] [ 884.496614]...
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