Re: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb092 ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Section A.2.5, Table A-1, says: Ahh, I had an older version. Ahh, I had an older version. Looking at the latest one I can find (325462-065US), it does...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Both UD0 and UD1 are documented to have modrm in the latest Intel SDM I can find (Order number 325462-065US, December 2017): I can find (Order number 325462-065US,...
View ArticleRe: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb092 ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It might still be a page-crossing instruction, but we won't take a page fault in kernel space (due to it being at the end of some text sectoin or whatever that changes...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL REQUEST] watchdog - v4.16 merge window
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Two small further requests for next time: Two small further requests for next time:[...] The output from git request-pull: This was still broken, and didn't actually...
View ArticleRe: [RFC v2 PATCH 6/7] x86/entry: get rid of ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_ST ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The old code did the saving in the common error_entry and paranoid_entry routines, in order to be able to share all the code, and making the duplicated stub functions...
View ArticleRe: [RFC v2 PATCH 6/7] x86/entry: get rid of ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_ST ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) and maybe we could still use this in paranoid_entry and error_entry if we made it something like /* if 'save_ret' is set, we pop the return point into %rsi */ .macro...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 6/6] s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I have this dim memory of allowing it to set strings too (filling in the default value with the stdout output from the shell execution). output from the shell...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Kconfig: add new special property shell= to te ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Thanks. Thanks.[...] option shell="$CC -Werror -fstack-protector -c -x c /dev/null" Yeah. Yeah. I do think we want to have the "shell" thing as a generic escape for...
View ArticleRe: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb092 ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:13 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: [...] that has a WARN in (this very much includes perf annotate): Ugh. Ugh. Is there...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] objtool: Fix switch-table detection
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'm assuming this will come through the normal tip trees, since that's where objtool stuff generally comes from, and this is not very high priority. priority.[...]...
View ArticleRe: [RFC v2 PATCH 6/7] x86/entry: get rid of ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_ST ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: [...] want to _complicate it_ beyond this simple, straightforward model You make a good...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 5/7] kconfig: invoke silentoldconfig when compiler ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] Or, is it just "Don't do it" thing? I think it's probably a "Don't do it". I think it's probably a "Don't do it". In fact, maybe we should just make it very...
View ArticleRe: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb092 ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: [...] up the people doing bringup and the like. Oh, we'll inconvenience people...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] cramfs: better MTD dependency expression
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote: [...] directly to you. Applied. Applied. Although I'm not entirely convinced that the...
View ArticleRe: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb092 ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: [...] could recompile their kernel with a simple change. Ack, that seems about the best we can...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/7] afs: Fixes and dynamic root
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] afs-next-20180208 Please just write this as Please just write this as git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git afs-next-20180208...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 09/31] x86/entry/32: Leave the kernel via trampoline stack
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote: [...] + rep movsb Ugh. This is going to be horrendous. Maybe not noticeable on modern CPU's,...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 5/8] docs: kernel-doc: Move STATE_BODY processing to a ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:32 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Does anyone know? It came with the original script in 2.3.52-pre1, somewhere around...
View ArticleRe: [RFC][PATCH] : fix end_name_hash() for 64b ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) For 32bit long, there is no change. Ok, sorry for the delay, I only got back to this now because the merge window is calming down (famous last words - sometimes Friday...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] xen: fixes for 4.16 rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's not ok when they do real changes, but it's EVEN MORE not ok when they are just random merges that bring in who-the-hell-knows-what. who-the-hell-knows-what. Merge...
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