On Wed 14-02-18 02:28:38, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > I do not have any objections regarding the extension. What I am more
> > interested in is _why_ people are still using this command line
> > parameter at all these days. Why would anybody want to intro
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 03:45:25PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > When the amount of kernel
> > memory is well bounded for certain systems, it is better to aggressively
> > reclaim from existing MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblocks rather than eagerly
> > fallback to others.
> >
> > We have additional
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> What if ... on startup, slab allocated a MAX_ORDER page for itself.
> It would then satisfy its own page allocation requests from this giant
> page. If we start to run low on memory in the rest of the system, slab
> can be induced to return some of it
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 08:15:28PM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Hello
>
> The current crypto_engine support only ahash and ablkcipher request.
> My first patch which try to add skcipher was Nacked, it will add too many
> functions
> and adding other algs(aead, asymetric_key) will make the situa
Hi gengdongjiu, liu jun
On 05/02/18 11:24, gengdongjiu wrote:
> James Morse wrote:
>> I'd like to pick these patches onto the end of that series, but first I want
>> to
>> know what NOTIFY_SEI means for any OS. The ACPI spec doesn't say, and
>> because its asynchronous, route-able and mask-able,
Hi gengdongjiu,
On 12/02/18 10:19, gengdongjiu wrote:
> On 2018/2/10 1:44, James Morse wrote:
>> The point? We can't know what a CPU without the RAS extensions puts in there.
>>
>> Why Does this matter? When migrating a pending SError we have to know the
>> difference between 'use this 64bit value
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:49:00AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > What if ... on startup, slab allocated a MAX_ORDER page for itself.
> > It would then satisfy its own page allocation requests from this giant
> > page. If we start to run low o
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > When the amount of kernel
> > memory is well bounded for certain systems, it is better to aggressively
> > reclaim from existing MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblocks rather than eagerly
> > fallback to others.
> >
> > We have additional patches that help wi
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:49:00AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > What if ... on startup, slab allocated a MAX_ORDER page for itself.
> > It would then satisfy its own page allocation requests from this giant
> > page. If we start to run low on m
From 2e4a473973a3b2dd841dc73523766c45f990acb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Minghui Liu
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:33:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing
list because the mailing list no longer exists
Signed-off-by: Minghui Liu
---
Documentat
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> What I was proposing was an intermediate page allocator where slab would
> request 2MB for its own uses all at once, then allocate pages from that to
> individual slabs, so allocating a kmalloc-32 object and a dentry object
> would result in 510 pages o
From: Changbin Du
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du
---
Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst | 23 ---
Documentation/trace/index.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.rst
b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-uses.
From: Changbin Du
Hi All,
The linux tracers are so useful that I want to make the docs better. The kernel
now uses Sphinx to generate intelligent and beautiful documentation from
reStructuredText files. I converted two trace docs for your to preview.
http://docservice.askxiong.com/linux-kernel/t
From: Changbin Du
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du
---
Documentation/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/trace/index.rst | 6 ++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/index.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
index ef5080c..3b99a
From: Changbin Du
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du
---
.../trace/{ftrace-design.txt => ftrace-design.rst} | 248 +++--
Documentation/trace/index.rst | 2 +
2 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/trace/{ftrace-design.txt => ftr
This converts the taint bit defines to an enum, uses indexed initializers
instead of comments, and make sure that no one forgets to update the
taint_flags when adding new bits.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 40 ++--
kernel/panic.c
Since the randstruct plugin can intentionally produce extremely unusual
kernel structure layouts (even performance pathological ones), some
maintainers want to be able to trivially determine if an Oops is coming
from a randstruct-built kernel, so as to keep their sanity when debugging.
This adds th
This consolidates the taint bit documentation into a single place with
both numeric and letter values. Additionally adds the missing TAINT_AUX
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
---
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 53 +
kernel/panic.c
This cleans up the taint flags and documentation before adding a new
one for randstruct. Patch 3/3 reads:
Since the randstruct plugin can intentionally produce extremely unusual
kernel structure layouts (even performance pathological ones), some
maintainers want to be able to trivially determine i
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:12:18 +0800
changbin...@intel.com wrote:
> From: Changbin Du
>
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du
> ---
> .../trace/{ftrace-design.txt => ftrace-design.rst} | 248
> +++--
> Documentation/trace/index.rst | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 137 ins
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 07:37:44PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> + [ TAINT_RANDSTRUCT ]= { 'T', ' ', true },
Something like this, yeah.
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