Re: [PATCH] mm: kvmalloc does not fallback to vmalloc for incompat ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The only reason for that should be the whole "don't recurse", and I think the naming is historical and slightly odd. historical and slightly odd. It was historically...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Rozycki (2): MIPS: prctl: Disallow FRE without FR with PR_SET_FP_MODE requests MIPS: ptrace: Fix PTRACE_PEEKUSR requests for 64-bit FGRs Marc Dionne (1): afs: Fix...
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Linus Torvalds writes: Trouble counting to five, Al? Trouble counting to five, Al? I'm getting "one, two, many" vibes. I'm getting "one, two, many" vibes. Linus Linus Linus
View ArticleRe: [git pull] vfs, pile 4
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:37 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> I do something like that anyway, ie the four first ones are marked as Pull dcache updates from...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v4.18
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Afaik there have also been issues with decoding instructions that have both an immediate and a memory offset. both an immediate and a memory offset. I suspect none of...
View ArticleRe: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken (was: Linux 4.17)
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We still have config 64BIT bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" default ARCH != "i386" default ARCH != "i386" which is what it was in 4.16 too. which is what it was in...
View ArticleRe: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] So something _does_ strip away the needed config bit Why do you need it? Why do you need it? I get I get CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_X86=y and...
View ArticleRe: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And doing a trivial "git bisect run" to pinpoint where CONFIG_64BIT goes away gives us CONFIG_64BIT goes away gives us f467c5640c29ad258c3cd8186a776c82fc3b8057 is the...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] fscrypt updates for 4.18
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt.git tags/fscrypt_for_linus That tag actually points to the same commit as the 'ext4_for_linus'...
View ArticleRe: x86/asm: __clear_user() micro-optimization (was: "Re: [GIT PUL ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:41 PM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote: [...] And CPU starts doing 3 instructions per cycle vs 2. Whee. That's a shockingly big...
View ArticleRe: x86/asm: __clear_user() micro-optimization (was: "Re: [GIT PUL ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:01 PM Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] registers. In fact, looking at Agner Fog's instruction lists, I don't see...
View ArticleRe: x86/asm: __clear_user() micro-optimization (was: "Re: [GIT PUL ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:20 PM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Yeah, odd. Yeah, odd. Here's the benchmark I used: Here's the benchmark I used: #define SIZE...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] cgroup changes for v4.18-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:22 PM Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote: [...] limiting mechanism is added. This "explanation" didn't really parse for me at all. This "explanation"...
View ArticleRe: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] or just something people found to work? I don't think all the _details_ may be intentional, but the fact that I don't think all the _details_ may be...
View ArticleRe: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Right now, in the Makefile, it is Right now, in the Makefile, it is ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) so basically "if the user didn't specify ARCH, we pick it from...
View ArticleRe: [git pull] drm for v4.18-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:50 PM Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote: [...] hopefully correctly signed tag, let me know. No problem. As long as I see that it's signed by...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] cgroup changes for v4.18-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:04 AM Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote: [...] interval to 10ms. Yeah, I looked at the patch (and the code) to make sense of the...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL 2/2] Kconfig updates for v4.18
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] Please pull Kconfig updates for v4.18 Thanks, pulled, going through my build testing now. I just wanted to say how much I like the new Kconfig syntax...
View ArticleRe: LKMM litmus test for Roman Penyaev's rcu-rr
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That's the *opposite* of what I would want any litmus tests to do. of what I would want any litmus tests to do. If people are looking to use them that way, then I'm...
View ArticleRe: LKMM litmus test for Roman Penyaev's rcu-rr
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] might look like this: Fair enough - you do want to have the distinction between "marked" and "unmarked". "unmarked". And it does make sense, although at...
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