Re: [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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] sound fixes for 4.16-final
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git tags/sound-4.16 No such tag. Forgot...
View ArticleLinux 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Douglas Anderson (1): arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix rk3399-gru-* s2r (pinctrl hogs, wifi reset) Emmanuel Grumbach (1): iwlwifi: mvm: set the correct tid when we flush the...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Andes(nds32) Port for Linux 4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] list. Can I get an overview of the nds32 architecture (uses, quirks, reasons for existing?) to add to the initial merge message? Just an overview, not some...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] misc core kernel changes
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: [...] - add membarriers to Documentation/features/ You had actually done this earlier already, so now...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 01/11] x86/mm: factor out pageattr _PAGE_GLOBAL setting
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:[...] even go to the trouble of filtering it anywhere? I'm assuming this is a...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 09/11] x86/pti: enable global pages for shared areas
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:[...] + pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_GLOBAL); So this is where the quesion of "why is this...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] arch: remove obsolete architecture ports
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] (dirstat only for brevity) Shortlog? Shortlog? I'd like to see that each architecture removal is independent of the others, so that if somebody wants to...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So my biggest worry isn't gcc-4.5 (anybody who hasn't updated deserves to be forced, or can stay with old kernels). to be forced, or can stay with old kernels). No, my...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] bitmap: fix memset optimization on big-endian systems
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This is wrong on big-endian systems; Ugh, yes. Ugh, yes. In retrospect, I do wish I had just made the bitmap types be byte-based, but we had strong reasons for those...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] bitmap: fix memset optimization on big-endian systems
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Part of it is due to another historical accident: the alpha port was one of the early ports, and it didn't do atomic byte accesses at all. atomic byte accesses at all....
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] EFI updates for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'm surprised you don't see them. I'm surprised you don't see them. Looks like this: Looks like this: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h:134...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Kernel lockdown for secure boot
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Let me repeat it here, since you so conveniently missed it and deleted it: it and deleted...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Kernel lockdown for secure boot
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) No way will any sane distribution take it, potentially breaking a lot of machines, and have no way to unbreak them except for "oh, btw, you have to disable secure boot...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] irq updates for 4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> wrote: [...] Sorry for breaking things! Thomas, I'll delay pulling your trees until tomorrow in case you...
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