Re: [PATCH 00/23] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> I guess the optimal version just ends up switching between two different entrypoints for...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] futex: futex_wake_op, do not fail on invalid op
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote: [...] is this OK/going to be applied to 4.14 yet or postponed to 4.15-rc? Thanks for reminding me, I...
View ArticleRe: Regression: commit da029c11e6b1 broke toybox xargs.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] Did an actual user application or script break? Ahh. If xargs broke,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to so ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I just want to be sure. So in general, the _hope_ is that we can just end up replacing existing boilerplate comments with that single line SPDX comment (using "//" in...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to so ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] *could* do it. Side note: I'm not going to enforce it, it's just a personal wish...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to so ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: [...] For .h files, we had to use /* */ That should only be true for the uapi files (because...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to so ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> I thought we fixed those things long ago.. Hmm. I thought we fixed those things long ago.....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 02/23] x86, kaiser: do not set _PAGE_USER for init_mm p ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] We'd have to force NONE, and Linus won't like it. Oh, I think it's fine for the kaiser case. Oh, I think it's fine for the kaiser case. I am not convinced...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to so ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Literally just removing that -C fixes the problem: Literally just removing that -C fixes the problem: - cmd_cpp_lds_S = $(CPP) $(cpp_flags) -P -C -U$(ARCH) \ +...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 02/23] x86, kaiser: do not set _PAGE_USER for init_mm p ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] there which reads the 'elf' to get to them. That would actually be really painful. That would actually be really painful. But I *think* you're confusing it...
View ArticleRe: sched/fair: Hard lockup from idle_balance()/task_numa_migrate( ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I suspect that you'd get more responses if it was an upstream kernel (and preferably newer), or even a distro one. (and preferably newer), or even a distro one. If you...
View ArticleRe: Regression: commit da029c11e6b1 broke toybox xargs.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The traditional value is 128kB, then for a while we didn't have any limit at all, then we did that RLIMIT_STACK/4 (but only for the strings), then we did RLIMIT_STACK/4...
View ArticleRe: Regression: commit da029c11e6b1 broke toybox xargs.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) You can still trigger it (set RLIMIT_DATA to something much too small, for example, and then generate more than that by just repeating the same argument multiple times...
View ArticleRe: [tip:x86/fpu] bitops: Add clear/set_bit32() to linux/bitops.h
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] behind the array. Oh, it's much worse than that. Oh, it's much worse than that. It's not that it would write beyond the array on big-endian, even if it were...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So I'm certainly ok with that workaround since apparently "asm volatile" doesn't do it. volatile" doesn't do it. That said, I think that if that asm needs to not be...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Fair enough. And the manual does say that it can merge and duplicate those asms (and suggests using "%=" to generate a unique number, but I guess "%c0" with __COUNTER__...
View ArticleRe: Regression: commit da029c11e6b1 broke toybox xargs.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It doesn't work if you don't limit it to *.c files: It doesn't work if you don't limit it to *.c files: [torvalds@i7 linux]$ grep some-value $(find .) -bash:...
View ArticleLinux 4.14-rc8
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) -n Catalin Marinas (1): Documentation: Add Arm Ltd to kernel-enforcement-statement.rst Chris Metcalf (1): arch/tile: Implement ->set_state_oneshot_stopped() Chris...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I had planned to wait for 4.15 to look at the printk hashing stuff etc, but this part I think I could/should merge early just because I think a lot of kernel developers...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Side note: it would be good to have some summary view, and perhaps some way to limit duplicates. some way to limit duplicates. I ended up running this command line from...
View Article