Re: [GIT PULL] First batch of KVM changes for v4.14
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So generally, if you do the test-merge anyway (which I appreciate), I generally prefer the expected results instead of the raw `git request-pull` output. request-pull`...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I don't think atomic memops do that. I don't think atomic memops do that. They enforce globally visible ordering, but since they happen in the cache and is not actually...
View ArticleRe: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e. ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] anywhere else in the whole manual. Yeah, it's really badly defined. If others have writable TLB entries, what keeps them from just continuing to write for...
View ArticleRe: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e. ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In the best case, it's just the current CPU, and no IPI is needed at all. current CPU, and no IPI is needed at all. Which means that maybe we can use that set of CPU's...
View ArticleRe: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e. ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] ormance optimization that[...] assumes PML4, PDP, PDE, and PTE entries are in cacheable WB-DRAM Uhhuh. Uhhuh. The page directories should *definitely*...
View ArticleRe: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e. ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) :) The thing is, even with the delayed TLB flushing, I don't think it should be *so* delayed that we should be seeing a TLB fill from garbage page tables. garbage page...
View ArticleRe: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e. ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: [...] the removal from the mask and the actual flushing. Indeed. The speculative kernel thread...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] remoteproc updates for v4.14
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Bjorn Andersson<bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> I haven't seen the arm-soc pull request yet, but I'll try to remember when I do. I...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kbuild: generate intermediate C files instead ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That's the old name, though - I didn't change that part, I just changed how it used to return the token structure pointer, which would be NULL when it wasn't a keyword....
View Articlebtusb "firmware request while host is not available" at resume
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It does't happen on every resume, and the machine works despite this (but no bluetooth - the *next* resume might bring it back, though). bring it back, though). Linus...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86/mm/64: Fix an incorrect warning with CONFIG_DEBUG_ ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: [...] Ugh, don't apply this. There's a somewhat deeper problem here. Too late. Commit...
View ArticleRe: btusb "firmware request while host is not available" at resume
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) There is nothing that serializes with anything else, and it has no actual basis for saying "I am now disabled/enabled" except for some entirely random time of whenever...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] SELinux patches for v4.14
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Anyway, I pulled this simply because it was easier to review and didn't have anything I disliked per se, but if we're going to actually keep the different securlty...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 4.13 20/27] Revert "firmware: add sanity check on shutd ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But then it should literally check *that*: it could do something like something like WARN_ON_ONCE(current == resume_thread, "Firmware loading called synchronously...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.14
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The whole "pick the upper file" is _very_ similar to the file->f_flags bits conceptually - those change how accesses are done in other ways (eg O_DIRECT etc), and...
View ArticleRe: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:245 initialize_tlb ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote: [...] current -git. Looks like this commit is the problematic one: Yes, ths fix should be...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL REQUEST] watchdog - v4.14-rc1 Merge Window
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Wim, your emails continue to be marked as spam. your emails continue to be marked as spam. gmail says: gmail says: "We've found that lots of messages from iguana.be are...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 4.13 20/27] Revert "firmware: add sanity check on shutd ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Even without the problems that we had with incredibly bad maintainership of the user mode side, the usermode helper had serious issues with just the fact that user mode...
View ArticleRe: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:245 initialize_tlb ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] today, I'm hoping. Ok, this should all be ok in current -git now. Ok, this should...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 2/2 v2] sched/wait: Introduce lock breaker in wake_up_p ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote: [...] BTW, will you be merging these 2 patches in 4.14? Yes, and thanks for...
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