Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Seems like it doesn't like void * arguments: Yeah, that was discussed separately, I just didn't realize we had any such users. such users. As David said,...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think this is the really fundamental issue. I think this is the really fundamental issue. A device that expects PIO to do some kind of high-performance transaction is...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's the low-volume stuff that almost nobody uses and where the customer is used to the whole notion of boutique hardware, so they're used to having to do special...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 23/45] sched: add do_sched_yield() helper; remove in-ke ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We should encourage people to always send at least the cover-page to everybody who gets cc'd, even if they don't get the whole series. get the whole series. Anyway, to...
View ArticleRe: Any chance that kernel/uid6.c can go? [Was: [PATCH 22/45] kern ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And those old uid system calls would be very much part of it. it. Sadly, I don't know where those old binaries are. There was a "bash.Z" as part of the 0.01 release....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/45] remove in-kernel syscall invocations (part 3 == ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:00 AM, Dominik Brodowski<linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:[...] the syscall entry path can be streamlined. Looks good to me. Looks good to me....
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think the email should contain just the "report" and then a link to the full information. link to the full information. That would seem to be a good enough summary to...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] ACPI fixes for v4.16-rc7
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Rafael J. wrote: [...] acpi-4.16-rc4 I get I get fatal: Couldn't find remote ref acpi-4.16-rc4 fatal: Couldn't find remote ref...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] target: Use WARNON_NON_RT(!irqs_disabled())
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Please just delete both lines. Please just delete both lines. There is exactly two callers of that static function, and both of them do There is exactly two callers of...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/11] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Dave Hansen<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:[...] keeps us from having to create any new pti=foo options Sounds sane. Sounds sane. The...
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But that's still a bugfix. bugfix. So I think the config can stay purely on the web (for when you go "so how do I *reproduce* this?") along with the actual reproducer...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/11] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Even with PCID, a global TLB entry for the shared pages would make sense, because it's now just *one* entry in the TLB rather that "one per PCID and one for the kernel...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/11] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] whole "don't even do global entries if you have PCID". You always do global for the actual user-mapped kernel pages, but when you don't have PCID you do...
View ArticleLinux 4.16-rc7
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Lu (2): x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment Haim Dreyfuss (1): iwlwifi: Cancel and set MARKER_CMD...
View ArticleRe: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) More realistically, I was thinking we'd just use a separate table or system calls, and generate different versions. system calls, and generate different versions. In...
View ArticleRe: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] work. Note: the commit message is "broken, but working, ptregs system call conversion for x86-64". conversion for x86-64". The "but working" is not because...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v6] kernel.h: Retain constant expression output for max ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Ack. Ack. I'm of two minds whether that "__is_constant()" macro should be explained or not....
View ArticleRe: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:44 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:<[...] on x32 (12900 being the number for x86_64). Hmm. Do you...
View ArticleRe: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:[...] install interesting packages you would like to test yourself. That...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] task_struct: Only use anon struct under randstruct plugin
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I assume what happens is that the anonymous struct ends up containing fields that are cacheline-aligned, and then the whole anonymous struct is cacheline-aligned. is...
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