Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] devpts: handle /dev/ptmx bind-mounts
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That said, NFS already has that exact same loop for follow_to_parent(), just syntactically slightly different version. slightly different version. In fact, I wonder if...
View ArticleLinux 4.16-rc5
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Rodriguez (1): lib/test_kmod.c: fix limit check on number of test devices created Manish Rangankar (1): scsi: qedi: Fix kernel crash during port toggle Marc Zyngier...
View ArticleRe: [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/compressed/64: Describe the logic behind ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] memory. Absolutely. Absolutely. Also, I'd suggest enabling 5-level paging as aggressively as possible by default (ie whenever the hardware supports it),...
View ArticleRe: [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/compressed/64: Describe the logic behind ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's not like it's per-thread, only per process, and very few people have so many processes that a page per process matters. processes that a page per process matters....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] scsi: eata: drop VLA in reorder()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It probably works, but one or two of those allocations will make the kernel stack really tight, so in general I really would suggest using kmalloc() instead, or...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 2/3 v3] devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In this case, the ptmx node is not necessarily associated with the pts directory in any way, and the only thing that matters is that it's the right special character...
View ArticleRe: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0TM99H fails to boot v4.16-rc5
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Dominik Brodowski<linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:[...] boot messages never show up on the screen... Hmm. My xps13 works fine,...
View ArticleRe: Future of STACKLEAK plugin?
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Honestly, I consider that to be one of those crazy patches that people can apply if they want to, but that there is no point in having upstream. upstream. Hundreds of...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We were so myopically staring at the __builtin_choose_expr() problem that we overlooked the obvious solution. obvious solution. Using __builtin_constant_p() together...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 2/3 v4] devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Christian Brauner<christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:[...] * simplify if condition Ok, I definitely prefer this simpler version....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: Don't mess with the .cache.mk when root
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And in fact, it occasionally _has_ broken, when "make install" has done more than just install things, and created root-owned files and directories (particularly the...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/4 v5 RESEND] devpts: handle bind-mounts correctly
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Christian Brauner<christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:[...] summarized in the individual patches: I don't see anything I react to any more....
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] auxdisplay for v4.16-rc6
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Miguel Ojeda<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> They are recently rebased, and looking around in the logs you've been gone for the...
View ArticleRe: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0TM99H fails to boot v4.16-rc5
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> wrote: [...] think we may finally have found the end of this loose string. Since it works for...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.16-7
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> wrote: [...] missing ACPI_WMI related Kconfig dependency. Boots and works (still) on my xps13. Boots...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] infiniband: qplib_fp: fix pointer cast
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> wrote: [...] duplicates in the next merge window, but should drop silently. Go ahead, assuming there are...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2] Revert "mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblo ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Ard Biesheuvel<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:[...] This reverts commit 864b75f9d6b0100bb24fdd9a20d156e7cda9b5ae. Applied directly,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.16-rc5
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This part is just garbage. I've pulled it, but I don't see why (and how) this kind of garbage got reviewed and acked by multiple people. reviewed and acked by multiple...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/9] x86/dumpstack: Cleanups and user opcode bytes Code ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: [...] simpler. I like that. :) This version looks ok to me. I'm sure there's room for tweaking here,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2] Revert "mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblo ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote: [...] has a valid struct page backing it. No, it really just says the latter. There...
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