Re: [PATCH v2] efivarfs: Limit the rate for non-root to read files
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote: [...] warnings flow? I think the "one message per second" is fine. I think the "one message per...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/5] x86/dumpstack: Cleanups and user opcode bytes Code ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So what we could perhaps do is: So what we could perhaps do is: - make console_verbose() actually reset things to at least LOGLEVEL_DEBUG - make console_verbose()...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'll take a look... Yes, kconfig.h itself shares the same problem, but it has generally been just about the config option testing itself, so you'd normally never care....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Rasmus Villemoes<rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> wrote:[...] and no new .o.cmd files got generated. Hah. So it was the lack of kconfig.h...
View ArticleRe: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But again, that is something that some people may be perfectly fine with - it's certainly much less of an issue than leaking actual *data*. *data*. And it might be an...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] Hah. So it was the lack of kconfig.h dependency that bit my testing ;) Confirmed....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Rasmus Villemoes<rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> wrote:[...] the CONFIG_ pattern. That sounds sensible to me. That sounds sensible to me. Not...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.16-rc2
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:28 AM, James Bottomley<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-fixes...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2 0/6] fs/dcache: avoid trylock loops
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:50 PM, John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> wrote: [...] This patchset removes all trylock loops from within the dcache code. I'm not...
View ArticleRe: [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] we drop dentry->d_lock [ deleted the bad things ] [ deleted the bad things ] Should we just instead get the ref to the dentry before dropping the lock,...
View ArticleRe: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The problem that commit 52994c256df3 fixed was that they actually existed in the user maps, just with different data, and then you can have a ITLB and a DTLB entry for...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.16-rc3
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git tags/for-linus This has 28 fixes...
View ArticleRe: [lkp-robot] [iversion] c0cef30e4f: aim7.jobs-per-min -18.0% re ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 7:05 AM, kernel test robot<xiaolong.ye@intel.com> wrote:[...] commit: c0cef30e4ff0dc025f4a1660b8f0ba43ed58426e ("iversion: make...
View ArticleLinux 4.16-rc3
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Linus Linus--- AMAN DEEP (1): usb: ohci: Proper handling of ed_rm_list to handle race condition between usb_kill_urb() and finish_unlinks() Adam Borowski (1): vsprintf:...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH] riscv/locking: Strengthen spin_lock() and spin_unl ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The write is very much part of it. write is very much part of it. Maybe that's what you meant, but it read to me as "just the read part of the rmw behaves as a...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.16-rc3
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: [...] me to do the final smoke test before sending a pull request. So this is the...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH] riscv/locking: Strengthen spin_lock() and spin_unl ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] order on the lock/unlock operations for the lock. Hmm. Hmm. I thought we had exactly that bug on some architecture with the queued spinlocks, and people...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] x86/pti updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] and calls. So now we have that So now we have that drivers/watchdog/.tmp_hpwdt.o: warning: objtool: .text+0x24: indirect call found in RETPOLINE build...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v7 3/7] fs/posix_acl: Document that get_acl respects AC ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] prevent caching by calling forget_cached_acl. This part is just confusing. This part is just confusing. First off, that comment is correct: a filesystem...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v7 3/7] fs/posix_acl: Document that get_acl respects AC ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) By all means add a comment about ACL_DONT_CACHE disabling the cache entirely. cache entirely. But don't _remove_ the other valid way to flush the cache, and don't make...
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