Re: [PATCH v2] add -Wpointer-arith sparse flag to toggle sizeof(vo ...
Linus Torvalds writes: Ack, looks sane. Ack, looks sane. Linus Linus Linus
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h deleted file mode 100644...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 12/23] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system cal ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:[...] a cpu_opv call can touch. No it's not. No it's not. You can have a...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 21/30] stack-protector: test compiler capability in Kco ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In the presense of multiple defaults, the first is picked, so this _automatically_ does that whole priority ordering. that whole priority ordering. And then the...
View ArticleRe: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE v ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] operation from the FP hardware? Note that the number of people who actually look at the si_code is approximately zero. approximately zero. But the ones that...
View ArticleRe: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE v ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I've seen code that cares about SIGFPE deeply, but it's almost invariably about some emulated environment (eg Java VM, or CPU emulation). emulation). And the siginfo...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] auxdisplay for v4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Miguel Ojeda<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> As far as I can tell, none of this has been in linux-next. As far as I can tell,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] chrome-platform updates for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bleung/chrome-platform.git tags/chrome-platform-for-linus-4.17 Please don't do this to me. Please don't do...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: re-add cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_pa ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'd rather just do it differently in shrink_dentry_list(): do it even for the empty list case by just doing it at the top of the loop: static void...
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Coming back to this now that the merge window is almost over ] Coming back to this now that the merge window is almost over ] On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:46 AM, Dmitry...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: re-add cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_pa ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I was going to say "but that doesn't even use select_collect()", but yeah, detach_and_collect() calls it. but yeah, detach_and_collect() calls it. It would be easy...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Dealing with the aliases of SI_USER
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So just clearing it is fine, the one or two places that want to set it to some silly value can do it themselves). silly value can do it themselves). Then your series...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: re-add cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_pa ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) For example, this very same code in the caller does + struct dentry *victim = NULL; + if (!victim) { but in many ways it would be more natural to just check the exit...
View ArticleLinux 4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Or at least kernel releases. least kernel releases. I'd call it momentous, but I think the arch removal was most of it, and I'm sure people will quickly rectify that...
View ArticleRe: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] trivial and obvious and I got cc'd on the discussion. and I also...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 12/23] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system cal ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So you are literally debugging something else than the real code. debugging something else than the real code. At that point, you don't need "cpu_opv()", you need to...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] "didn't go far enough". You're still not getting it. You're still not getting it. The "didn't go far enough" means that the bug fix is *BUGGY*. There is no...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So if you write a test-case that tests that "system call number 345 returns -ENOSYS", and we add a new system call, and you say "hey, you regressed my system call...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's literally just a "this allows us to be ABI compatible with two different users that were confused about the compatibility issue we had due to a broken binary...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 12/23] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system cal ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And if somebody does a ldload of a malloc library, and then wants to analyze the behavior of a program, maybe they should ldload their own malloc routines first? That's...
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