Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.16-rc3
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: [...] me to do the final smoke test before sending a pull request. So this is the...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH] riscv/locking: Strengthen spin_lock() and spin_unl ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] order on the lock/unlock operations for the lock. Hmm. Hmm. I thought we had exactly that bug on some architecture with the queued spinlocks, and people...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] x86/pti updates for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] and calls. So now we have that So now we have that drivers/watchdog/.tmp_hpwdt.o: warning: objtool: .text+0x24: indirect call found in RETPOLINE build...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v7 3/7] fs/posix_acl: Document that get_acl respects AC ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] prevent caching by calling forget_cached_acl. This part is just confusing. This part is just confusing. First off, that comment is correct: a filesystem...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v7 3/7] fs/posix_acl: Document that get_acl respects AC ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) By all means add a comment about ACL_DONT_CACHE disabling the cache entirely. cache entirely. But don't _remove_ the other valid way to flush the cache, and don't make...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v7 3/7] fs/posix_acl: Document that get_acl respects AC ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Eric W. You make your bias very clear, by simply trying to hide the other case. You make your bias very clear, by simply trying to hide...
View ArticleRe: [LKP] [lkp-robot] [iversion] c0cef30e4f: aim7.jobs-per-min -18 ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Anyway, I think the _real_ change has nothing to with instruction scheduling, and everything to do with this: scheduling, and everything to do with this: 107.62 =C2=B1...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] sparse doesn't support indirect_branch attribute
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: [...] to the sparse mailing list. I think the sparse plan is to just stop warning...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] sparse doesn't support indirect_branch attribute
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: [...] does -Wno-unknown-attributes (or however that is spelled). That's probably a better...
View ArticleRe: [RFC/RFT patch 0/7] timekeeping: Unify clock MONOTONIC and clo ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] userspace folks to make a final decision. Honestly, I don't think we'd get the testing this kind of change needs except by just trying it. except by just...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 12/31] x86/entry/32: Add PTI cr3 switch to non-NMI entr ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote: [...] entry stack for debug/NMI. Note that debug traps can happen regardless of TF, Think kgdb etc....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2 00/10] Copy Offload in NVMe Fabrics with P2P PCI Memory
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] untangle the code :-) Afaik, x86 will not cache PCI unless the system is misconfigured, and even then it's more likely to just raise a machine check...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2 00/10] Copy Offload in NVMe Fabrics with P2P PCI Memory
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The really nitty-gritty stuff is not architected, and generally not documented outside (possibly) the BIOS writer's guide that is not made public. public. Those magical...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2 00/10] Copy Offload in NVMe Fabrics with P2P PCI Memory
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] between PCIe and RAM, they just affect the behavior on top of that. Side...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: take over Kconfig maintainership
Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Masahiro Yamada<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:[...] declaration. Making it official now. Ack. Ack. I expect I'll see this in one of...
View ArticleRe: [RESEND][PATCH] bug: Exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from repo ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In fact, even if you don't send me pull requests, that's generally what I assume, because the bulk of patches should be going through some submaintainer that _does_...
View ArticleRe: [RESEND][PATCH] bug: Exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from repo ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That's what networking already does, ie you'll see things like ie you'll see things like [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] patch description here [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] patch...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] x86 fixes for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus Nothing...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] x86 fixes for 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] Did you forget to push out? I pulled from x86/urgent, which has the same...
View ArticleLinux 4.16-rc4
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Silva (1): nbd: fix return value in error handling path Hans de Goede (1): ALSA: hda: Add a power_save blacklist Hans van Kranenburg (1): btrfs: alloc_chunk: fix DUP...
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