Linux 4.16-rc2
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Silva (2): ACPI: SPCR: Mark expected switch fall-through in acpi_parse_spcr x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int Hans de Goede (4):...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 11/23] kconfig: add 'shell-stdout' function
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> I'm not seeing anything like that right now, but I could imagine it in theory, so your worry...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 11/23] kconfig: add 'shell-stdout' function
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Thinking about it some more, I really would prefer just "$(shell ...)" everywhere. ...)" everywhere. But it would be nice if perhaps the error handling would match the...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 4/4] fs/dcache: Avoid the try_lock loops in dentry_kill()
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:34 PM, John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> wrote: [...] comments were updated to not mislead, it is the way I would want to go. Ok, looking at...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86/speculation: Support "Enhanced IBRS" on future ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: [...] removed. I'm not convinced we handle the case of hotplug CPU's with different CPU models...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Root or not. And just on general principlies, I don't want to see weasel-wordy commit messages like commit messages like "Reading certain EFI variables trigger SMIs"...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH v3 1/6] x86/entry/64: move PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS from ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It generates (when there is an offset, like this): It generates (when there is an offset, like this): leaq \ptregs_offset(%rsp), %rbp orq $0x1, %rbp orq $0x1, %rbp and...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote: [...] 4 (yes FOUR!) SMIs. Is that actualkly the normal implementation? Is that actualkly...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We don't want to do that in general, but maybe we could just do it for the subset that we think are "user accessible". are "user accessible". Although maybe just that...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 11/23] kconfig: add 'shell-stdout' function
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Masahiro Yamada<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:[...] macro success $(shell ($(1) && echo y) || echo n) I like it. This is...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We could make the rate-limiting be some completely generic thing, not tying it to efivars itself, but just saying "this is for random "occasional" things where we are...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] the efivars. It's not about slowing down. It's not about slowing down. It's about "user Xyz is messing with the system and reading efi vars all the time"...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote: [...] create a lot of uids and switch between them. Anybody who does that deserves...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] we just add a delay to each call so that we can't exceed the limit. Delaying sounds ok, I guess. Delaying sounds ok, I guess. But the "obvious"...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/5] x86/dumpstack: Cleanups and user opcode bytes Code ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 31 c3 48 83 ec 08 e8 ce 8f 01 00 48 89 04 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007ffff74b9620 RDX:...
View ArticleRe: RANDSTRUCT structs need linux/compiler_types.h (Was: [nfsd4] p ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Some of our related helper macros (ie randomized_struct_fields_start/end) don't have the same problem, because if you don't have the define for them, the compiler will...
View ArticleRe: RANDSTRUCT structs need linux/compiler_types.h (Was: [nfsd4] p ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) At least for me, for an allmodconfig build, the top headers are allmodconfig build, the top headers are 23322 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/types.h 23322...
View ArticleRe: RANDSTRUCT structs need linux/compiler_types.h (Was: [nfsd4] p ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I tried my earlier patch with "make allmodconfig" (and a fix to nfsd to make it compile), but now I'm back to testing hjl's gas updates so it would be better to get a...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] efivarfs: Limit the rate for non-root to read files
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) [...] + usleep_range(10000, 10000); ..this doesn't really ratelimit anything, because you can just start a thousand threads, and they all end up being rate-limited, but...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Ok, applied. Ok, applied. I'm a bit worried that this ends up bypassing our automatic dependency generation. generation. Lookie here (in a fully built tree): Lookie...
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