Re: [PATCH 3/3] syscalls: Add a bit of documentation to __SYSCALL_ ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Ack. Ack. Is that "long long" part of the example on purpose? And "long long" is the simplest example, even though in practice the type is most often "loff_t"....
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: [...] less on top of this patch. Ack, that should be done separately from the movement...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The paired registers tend to have special arch-specific rules, making this particularly painful. making this particularly painful. I suspect that the best solution (and...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) POLLWRNORM for TCP_CLOSING Steven Rostedt (VMware) (2): ftrace, orc, x86: Handle ftrace dynamically allocated trampolines tracing: Update stack trace skipping for ORC...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH for 4.16 00/11] membarrier updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Ingo/Peter/Thomas, can you comment on this? I'd like to get this moving one way or another, rather than just hold it back forever. another, rather than just hold it...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] inode->i_version rework for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And I require people to *think* about it. people to *think* about it. So what's to horribly horribly wrong? So what's to horribly horribly wrong?The...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] inode->i_version rework for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] to the degree that I always went "no, I won't pull this garbage". always=almost....
View ArticleRe: [RFC,05/10] x86/speculation: Add basic IBRS support infrastructure
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) What you should care about is not so much the guests (which do their own thing) but protect guests from each other, no? own thing) but protect guests from each other,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] Timer core updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> I really would have liked to see more of the rationale for this - now I'm left with just...
View ArticleRe: [RFC,05/10] x86/speculation: Add basic IBRS support infrastructure
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote: [...] in a VM. That sounds reasonable. That sounds reasonable. However, wouldn't...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] inode->i_version rework for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) They test the sign in 64 bits and return that boolean single-bit value. The _intent_ is to allow numbers up to 2**63 apart, but if somebody does that numbers up to...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] Timer core updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: [...] the softirq-hrtimers, with a good chunk of benefits to non-rt upstream as well. So...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 02/12] array_idx: sanitize speculative array de-refe ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Yeah, I think everybody is a bit tired of - and burnt out by - these patches, and they are subtler and somewhat more core than most are, which makes the stakes a bit...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2] iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Should I expect this in a future pull request, or take it directly? Should I expect this in a future pull request, or take it directly? There's no hurry about this,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] arm64 updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Catalin Marinas<catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:[...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux tags/arm64-upstream I got...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] vfs.git: poll annotations
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] the annotations through the tree. Ok, I'm not entirely happy with this. Ok, I'm not entirely happy with this. I don't think the mangle/demangle_poll()...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] vfs.git: poll annotations
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> If we can make gcc generate ok code for the generic case and not need any arch-specific ones,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2] iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] up for this cycle. Done. Done. I wonder if "false for same, true for different" calling convention makes much sense, but it matches the old "0 for same" so...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:49 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote: [...] dereferences an ERR_PTR(): Thanks, applied. Thanks, applied. Linus Linus Linus
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] first round of SCSI updates for the 4.14+ merge window
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-misc Ok, now I did indeed get that Ok, now I did indeed get that gpg: Can't check...
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