Re: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We fix tens of bugs every single day, thinking that "fixing a bug" means that we can break something is simply NOT TRUE. we can break something is simply NOT TRUE. So...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I was hoping we'd be able to avoid that, partly because the commit looks fine, but partly because it also doesn't revert cleanly. partly because it also doesn't revert...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The kernel has a simple rule: no user regressions. The kernel has a simple rule: no user regressions. Yes, we've had to break that rule very occasionally - when the...
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Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 12:06 PM Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote: [...] longer pull from me. No. I'm *very* unhappy about how you seem to think that Zdenek's...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Turn the "you did a write request on a RO disk" into a WARN_ON_ONCE() instead of a hard error. error. Something like the attached patch. Something like the attached...
View ArticleRe: [dm-devel] LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's meant for things like CD-ROM devices, or for a floppy device when you notice that the controller reports that the floppy itself is physically write-protected....
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Yeah, it was specious. So I'll apologize for the strong words, and I'll just say - not excuse, but explanation - that this is the *ONE* thing that continues to drive me...
View ArticleRe: [dm-devel] LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Instead, what I suggest we do is: Case 1: if a user program notice that a new kernel breaks something, then (a) report it to kernel people with a test-case (b) if you...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I wonder why I didn't get a compiler warning for it... why I didn't get a compiler warning for it... [ Goes off and looks ] [ Goes off and looks ] Oh, because the...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 3/7] x86/mm/init: pass unconverted symbol addresses to ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It does not follow page tables at all. follow page tables at all. And on 32-bit, it literally ends up doing (see __phys_addr_nodebug()) a simple And on 32-bit, it...
View ArticleRe: [GIT] Networking
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] gruops, from Dmitry Safonov. This one is written kind of stupidly. This one is written kind of stupidly. The code went from the original The code went from...
View ArticleLinux 4.18-rc8
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Wysocki (1): ACPI / LPSS: Avoid PM quirks on suspend and resume from hibernation Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki (1): brcmfmac: fix regression in parsing NVRAM for multiple...
View ArticleRe: aio poll V22 (aka 2.0)
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Looking at the patches, this is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch, is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch, It adds refcounting to...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] vfs: fix statfs64() returning impossible EOVERFLOW for ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] So the whole put_compat_statfs64() thing should be Ack, I'm ok with this simplification. Ack, I'm ok with this simplification.[...] I'm somewhat tempted to...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This looks odd and unnecessary. This looks odd and unnecessary. Why isn't this just a Why isn't this just a sigdelsetmask(signal, SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK);...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 0/6] Not restarting for due to signals.
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:53 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: [...] non-controversial I am not posting them again. Other than the one nit I just replied...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v4 0/2] media: usb: pwc: Don't use coherent DMA buffers ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; where the problem is that the "sender" field is included in the...
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