Re: [RFC 2/2] x86/pti/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'd rather expose less (think MAXCPU) and then have the CPU hotplug code expose the page as the CPU comes up? The "disgusting" part is that I think it could/should...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] fix osf_wait4() breakage
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Fixes: "osf_wait4: switch to kernel_wait4()" Please put the actual commit ID there too, because that's what people with automation check. with automation...
View ArticleLinux 4.18-rc6
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) describe net: ethernet: stmmac: fix documentation warning C=C3=A9dric Le Goater (1): scsi: cxlflash: fix assignment of the backend operations Damien Le Moal (1): scsi:...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/3] PTI for x86-32 Fixes and Updates
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And modern gcc's no longer have the pipe between cpp and cc1, so they don't have that issue either (which would have sjhown the PTI slowdown a lot more) issue either...
View ArticleRe: Linux 4.18-rc6
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:23 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: [...] so I just disabled it completely for s390. Well, I'm not going to release a 4.18...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 20/20] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) and here you return with the list entry still there, pointing to the stack that you now no longer use. the stack that you now no longer use. The same is true of *all*...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/20] PIDTYPE_TGID removal of fork restarts
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:23 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: [...] have but if not please let me know. Looks mostly ok, except for the completely broken...
View ArticleRe: [PATCHv3 0/3] Fix crash due to vma_is_anonymous() false-positives
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:11 AM Kirill A. Shutemov<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:[...] now. Infiniband drivers have to be fixed first. Ack, these look good to me....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] media: staging: omap4iss: Include asm/cacheflush.h aft ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:41 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:[...] like adding:No. The <asm/*> includes really should come after...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 20/20] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) How about moving the "copy_signal()" and "copy_sighandler()" cases up to fairly early in the "copy_process()" function (and clean up late, obviously). obviously). Then,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] media: staging: omap4iss: Include asm/cacheflush.h aft ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Do you intend to apply it directly? Yes, I took it and it should be pushed out. Yes, I took it and it should be pushed out.[...] handle includes without slowing builds....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 20/20] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:05 PM Eric W. No, _just_ signal allocation. No, _just_ signal allocation. It would still just use the special-case list to set the pending...
View ArticleRe: [PATCHv3 1/3] mm: Introduce vma_init()
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:03 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: [...] was moved into vma_init(). Yeah, with the vma_init(), I guess the advantage of using...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2 20/20] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] + } Oh, the previous version had this too, but it wasn't as obvious because it was just in a single line: because it was just in a single line: return...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86/bugs: protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:53 PM Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote: [...] context switch when generic spectrev2 mitigation has been enabled. Shouldn't this also do...
View ArticleRe: [PATCHv3 1/3] mm: Introduce vma_init()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) They are literally just fake vmas for the "flush_tlb()" machinery, which won't ever really cause any VM activity and will just call back to the architecture TLB...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] fscache and cachefiles fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Can you pull these fixes for fscache and cachefiles please? Why do they have commit times literally *minutes* before your email to ask me to pull? ask me...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] fscache and cachefiles fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I really want the warm and fuzzies about things, and when I see something being changed just minutes before, something like something being changed just minutes before,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] ACPI fix for v4.18-rc7
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) My XPS13 laptop is unhappy with something recent. My XPS13 laptop is unhappy with something recent. As of yesterday, I get this at bootup: As of yesterday, I get this...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] ACPI fix for v4.18-rc7
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] The patch below should be able to fix this. Yes, the error messages seem gone with this. Yes, the error messages seem gone with this. I see another ACPI...
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