Re: [PATCH 0/3] add %pX specifier
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Tobin C. wrote: [...] of %x (and I don't the balls to right now). The thing is, this continues to have the exact same issue that %pK...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] 9p: set page uptodate when required in write_end()
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) <alexander.levin@verizon.com> wrote:[...] This has been on LKML since April, but the 9p maintainers seem to...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] printk: hash addresses printed with %p
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In yet other cases, you'll know specific bit patterns of the pointers (like "I know this reports a page address, so the upper 14 bits are all set, and the lower 12 bits...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ip ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: [...] in misc queue with mismatched Author: and Signed-off-by:... Yup, just add my sign-off. Yup,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 12/15] lib/assoc_array: Remove smp_rea ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) No, they do not. No, they do not. Do you believe in fairies and Santa Claus? Do you believe in fairies and Santa Claus? Because quite frankly, the likelihood of either...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/3] add %pX specifier
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Yeah, siphash is probably the sanest thing to use. Yeah, siphash is probably the sanest thing to use. How bad would it be to use HalfSipHash on 32-bit architectures?...
View ArticleRe: [lkp-robot] [x86/kconfig] 81d3871900: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote: [...] allocator and the K&R mechanism that was used in the early kernels. Should...
View ArticleRe: [lkp-robot] [x86/kconfig] 81d3871900: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote: [...] allocator and the K&R mechanism that was used in the early kernels. Should...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/3] add %pX specifier
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) When people use these things for debugging and for identifying which device node or socket or whatever they are tracking, we're generally talking a (small) handful of...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] scripts: fix faddr2line to work on last symbol
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote: [...] seem to have an option for dumping the section name. Fair enough, but I'll apply Neil's...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] patchset. I want to see real numbers from real issues. I want to see real numbers from real issues. A "increment percpu value" simply isn't relevant. I want...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) For example, say that you're some runtime that wants to use the percpu thing for percpu counters - because you want to avoid cache ping-pong, and you want to avoid...
View ArticleRe: [lkp-robot] [x86/kconfig] 81d3871900: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] would be to align the data properly? I suspect anything that has the SHA extensions should also do unaligned loads efficiently. The whole "aligned only"...
View ArticleRe: NMI watchdog dump does not print on hard lockup
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: [...] hasn't been flushed, the flush happens then. By the time 40 sec has passed, I...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) There's a LWN article about it from 2015, and it wasn't new back then either (slides from 2013). from 2013). I wouldn't be surprised if there had been academic _papers_...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: [...] one user per process (because there is only a single range and abort IP) No, it...
View ArticleLinux 4.14-rc5
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Srinivasan (1): Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix bugs in rescind handling Kai-Heng Feng (1): ALSA: usb-audio: Add sample rate quirk for Plantronics P610 Kamalesh Babulal (1):...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ip ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Well, it is quite the traditional name in the OS community and in Linux it goes back to before the 1.0 release. Linux it goes back to before the 1.0 release. We've got...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL for v4.14-rc6] media fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote:[...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media...
View ArticleRe: [lkp-robot] [x86/kconfig] 81d3871900: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote: [...] boundary and this issue happend. Hmm. I can see why the compiler would do that...
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