Re: [git pull] vfs.git: poll annotations
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> If we can make gcc generate ok code for the generic case and not need any arch-specific ones,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2] iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] up for this cycle. Done. Done. I wonder if "false for same, true for different" calling convention makes much sense, but it matches the old "0 for same" so...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:49 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote: [...] dereferences an ERR_PTR(): Thanks, applied. Thanks, applied. Linus Linus Linus
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] first round of SCSI updates for the 4.14+ merge window
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-misc Ok, now I did indeed get that Ok, now I did indeed get that gpg: Can't check...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] siginfo fix for 4.16-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Eric W. Biederman<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:[...] Linus can you please pull Stephen's fix so that powerpc builds correctly. I fixed this...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Security subsystem updates for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote: [...] next-tpm So I did that, because it makes it easier and more controlled for me. But...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:10 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: [...] the IBRS bit to do *anything*. Amen, brother! Amen, brother! Please please...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/5] compiler.h, kasan: Avoid duplicating __read_once_s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Ack for the whole series. Ack for the whole series. Will this go through Andrew's mm tree or what? I can pick it up directly too. Will this go through Andrew's mm tree...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 1/5] compiler.h, kasan: Avoid duplicating __read_once_s ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Andrey Ryabinin<aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> wrote:[...] Whatever you'd prefer. Ok, I just took it directly as-is, Ok, I just took it directly...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] leaking_addresses.pl changes for 4.16-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) A bigger deal is that it now wants perl-bigint, as of commit 8d8a77fb99bd ("leaking_addresses: add range check for vsyscall memory"). memory"). And that is not...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] drm pull for v4.16-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I pulled, and then noticed that there's no diffstat to compare my end result with. end result with. Then I was going to at least compare the shortlog, but that is...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] drm pull for v4.16-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote: [...] it doesn't happen again. Heh, so there's some Wayland clipboard buffer limit. But...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_ ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And there's a couple of "bool lock_flush_tlb" arguments that will simply become constant and generate much better code that way. generate much better code that way. And...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_ ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) */ -static bool +static bool __always_inline slot_handle_level_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, slot_level_handler fn, int start_level, int...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] pin control bulk changes for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So I pulled this, and then was surprised by how *everything* got rebuilt even though it only touched pinctl files. rebuilt even though it only touched pinctl files. The...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] pin control bulk changes for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) would seem to make those happy and make 'allmodconfig' build for me. those happy and make 'allmodconfig' build for me. But I'm only testing x86-64. 1 + 2 files changed,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] pin control bulk changes for v4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] _some_. Testing it, that patch definitely cuts down on recompiles after Testing it, that patch definitely cuts down on recompiles after touch...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH for 4.16 00/11] membarrier updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: [...] are going to pull it directly. I have not pulled yet, I wanted to check. But I do want...
View ArticleRe: [RFC][PATCH] : fix end_name_hash() for 64b ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Any suggestions? So I *think* that this was on purpose, but it's a long time ago, and we've changed some of the hashing since. we've changed some of the...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] net: mediatek: Explicitly include pinctrl headers
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:54 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote: [...] Include these headers explicitly to avoid the build failure. I don't think...
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