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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:18 PM Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> and when I decided to actually do some minimal kvm testing with that patch, I notice...

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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:51 PM Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> wrote: [...] subsystems' modifications break something. Yeah, the biusection seems to actually be...

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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:00 PM Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] I'll continue to bisect to see. Ok, so commit 95cde3c59966 ("debugfs:...

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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:26 PM Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] reverted. I suspect it's the special kvm debugfs entries - see...

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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Yeah, I did two fairly brute-force fixes for two different issues (the only common thread was kvm - testing the first fix was what then got me to the debugfs revert)....

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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 4:00 AM Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote: [...] but it seems his patch got lost. So I think his patch is closer to what the...

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Re: [PATCH] bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 3:44 AM Tetsuo Handa<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Particularly not the kind where then a function drops the lock that was taken in...

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Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.18 merge window

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:27 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: [...] It was, I suppose that's how Arnd found it. Ok, apparently the 0day bot doesn't...

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Re: [PATCH] bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:46 AM Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote: [...] mostly OK. The versions that don't have that conditional locking look fine to me, yes. Is...

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Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild updates for 4.18 (2nd round)

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:47 AM Masahiro Yamada<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:[...] Please pull more Kbuild updates. Pulled. However, I notice a few...

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Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild updates for 4.18 (2nd round)

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I used to have I used to have CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set #...

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Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild updates for 4.18 (2nd round)

Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:03 AM Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] This is a pretty dangerous silent change. I've merged it despite this, but I think...

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Re: [PATCH] bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:21 AM Tetsuo Handa<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:[...] test_bit(WB_shutting_down, &wb->state) == false after...

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Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild updates for 4.18 (2nd round)

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Make the "CC_HAVE_xyz" model for compiler feature tests, but when actually picking an actual option, it's not really about the compiler any more, except in the sense...

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Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild updates for 4.18 (2nd round)

Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:16 AM Masahiro Yamada<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:[...] Could you run sed directly in your tree? Sure, I did that on the plane. Now on...

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Re: [PATCH v33 1/4] mm: add a function to get free page blocks

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:08 PM Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> This is the kind of simple interface where I don't need to worry about the MM code calling out to...

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Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf/core: Use sysctl to turn on/off dropping l ...

Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:36 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote: [...] unconditionally, which seems sufficient for my test cases. Ack. Ack. The PEBS case may need...

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Linux 4.18-rc1

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And as always, the credited person on the list below is the maintainer I've pulled from, which is not necessarily at all the same as the developer that write the code....

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Re: [GIT PULL] dma-mapping file renames for Linux 4.18

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 1:44 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: [...] you'd take. I iwas going to take it, but then I noticed that it's an unsigned...

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Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git next branch

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:23 AM Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:[...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git merge...

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