Re: [PATCH 00/31 v2] PTI support for x86_32
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: [...] Hardware supports PCID even on 32-bit kernels, no? We're not adding support for it even...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86: try to simplify NR_CPUS config
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think it can be simplified a bit more. I think it can be simplified a bit more. If you move the definition of RANGE_END_CPUS up to before RANGE_BEGIN_CPUS, you can...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] apparmor updates for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] Please pull these apparmor changes for v4.16 No. No. You had an extra two weeks because 4.15 was delayed. And none of this appears to have been in...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: [...] $KBUILD_CPPFLAGS" Guys, this is not that important. Guys, this is not that...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 09/31] x86/entry/32: Leave the kernel via trampoline stack
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But since an unaligned stack pointer really shouldn't be an issue, it's fine to not care. it's fine to not care.[...] It very much depends on the cpu. No again. No...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/31 v2] PTI support for x86_32
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) people with popcon installed). One of the issues I've seen is that people often simply move a disk (or copy an installation) when upgrading machines. (or copy an...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86/Kconfig: Further simplify the NR_CPUS config
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Looks good to me. Looks good to me. At the risk of bike-shedding, we could remove all the At the risk of bike-shedding, we could remove all the default 1 if !SMP...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> The mentioned script (and bugzilla) was from 2006, I assumed this was all historical. all...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Ok, so this really ended up bothering me. Ok, so this really ended up bothering me. I was hoping to really just unify all the stupid compiler flag testing in just the...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That actually sounds like we could just That actually sounds like we could just (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum required version (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] (b) actually error out if we find a bad compiler Just to explain why that's different from what we do not (apart from the "error out" thing to actually...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) With modern distros being at 7.3, and people testing pre-releases of gcc-8, something like gcc-4.5 is still pretty darn ancient. is still pretty darn ancient. But it...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Arnd claimed that some architectures needed even newer-than-4.3, but I assume that's limited to things like RISC-V that simply don't have old gcc support at all. gcc...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/31 v2] PTI support for x86_32
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: [...] At the risk of suggesting heresy, should we consider removing x86_32 support...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] take it to 4.6 instead. So it sounds like Arnd knows what the distros have. Because I think that would actually be the best way to try to determine where...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] poll annotations - second round
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: [...] (ideally - just before -rc1) Ok, merged and scripted and final patch applied....
View ArticleLinux 4.16-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Go out and test, Go out and test, Linus Linus--- Al Viro (10): poll annotations mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups kern_recvmsg reduction misc vfs updates get_user_pages_fast...
View ArticleRe: [tip:x86/pti] x86/entry/64: Introduce the PUSH_AND_CLEAN_REGS ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote: [...] I propose using xorl instead. Makes sense, and matches the other 'xorl'. Makes...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3 8/7] TESTING_ONLY x86/entry: reduce static footprint ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Look at the "interrupt" macro, which is used by 'apicinterrupt3', and has a number of uses that way. has a number of uses that way. That code could be unified a lot,...
View ArticleRe: linux-next: unnecessary merge in the v4l-dvb tree
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] signed tag (I forget the reasoning). The reasoning is to avoid losing the signature from the tag (when merging a signed tag, the signature gets inserted...
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