Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc an ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Boris Lukashev points out that Patrick should probably check a newer version of gcc. version of gcc. I looked around, and in one of the emails, Patrick said: I looked...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So can I ask that you make the 0day build scripts always use So can I ask that you make the 0day build scripts always use CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] modpost: detect modules without a MODULE_LICENSE
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: [...] so that modpost detects modules that do not have a MODULE_LICENSE. I'll happily do this...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Silva (1): net/mlx5e/core/en_fs: fix pointer dereference after free in mlx5e_execute_l2_action Hangbin Liu (1): bonding: discard lowest hash bit for 802.3ad layer3+4...
View ArticleRe: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT impacts on faddr2line
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) There's that whole complicated script for our final link in complicated script for our final link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh scripts/link-vmlinux.sh which links in all...
View ArticleRe: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT impacts on faddr2line
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'm not talking the separate "dwp" package that packs multiple dwo files into one, but to actually link them all in at the one. one, but to actually link them all in at...
View ArticleRe: [btrfs] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6379 at fs/direct-io.c:293 dio_co ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Darrick J. wrote:[...] I don't think we can quietly ignore the situation. Direct-IO causing cache coherency issues? I'm shocked and...
View ArticleRe: linux-next: build warnings in Linus' tree
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: [...] ... ... Yes. Very much expected. Hopefully the involved modules will get...
View ArticleRe: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kerne ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] bother. I vote for "not bother". I vote for "not bother". Seriously, if you have firmware in /lib/firmware, and you don't trust it, what the hell are you...
View ArticleRe: bit tweaks [was: Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking reg ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The alternatives of doing it _entirely_ by hand tend to be much worse (ie you end up using a macro from hell that checks which of the two bits are bigger and shifting...
View ArticleRe: bit tweaks [was: Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking reg ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I tried to do the same thing in fs/namespace.c where it does the reverse bit translation, and gcc makes a _horrible_ mess of it and actually makes the code much worse...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The *sane* model would be to The *sane* model would be to (a) continue to use the existing time that we always have (local_clock()) in the printk timestamps, and don't...
View ArticleRe: [RFC 6/7] x86/asm: Remap the TSS into the cpu entry area
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Note that historically, about half of the Intel errata (that don't get fixed) are about TSS in...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Of course, these days other system journal sources tend to be so chatty that it doesn't much happen, but maybe it would still be appreciated in embedded places where...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Dear god, that's nasty. Dear god, that's nasty. I agree that the vmcore info name probably needs to be retained, but maybe we could just do that with maybe we could...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And at the same time, it's pretty obvious that wall clock is meaningful. that wall clock is meaningful. Who really wants that boot time thing when you have those two? I...
View ArticleRe: bit tweaks [was: Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking reg ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Rasmus Villemoes<linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:[...] reasonable code. Oh well. It might be configuration-dependent. I usually end up...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86: use cpufreq_quick_get() for /proc/cpuinfo "cpu MH ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] So that patch is actually slower. Oh it definitely is expected to be slower, because it does the IPI to all the cores and actually gets their frequency...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86: use cpufreq_quick_get() for /proc/cpuinfo "cpu MH ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] on Ingo's 160-core thing, iirc. Looked it up. Ingo's machine "only" had...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] MD update for 4.15-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I know I absolutely hate what things like this does to tab-completion, because everything now has the same prefix. prefix. And it's not like it adds any value - the...
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