Re: Why does d_splice_alias need to check IS_ROOT?

2018-05-27 Thread Lei Chen
Al Viro 于2018年5月27日周日 上午1:12写道： > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 12:33:40AM +0800, Lei Chen wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm insteresting in how hard link and denry lookup work and their > > implementation. > > > > I know that this interface tries to conne

Why does d_splice_alias need to check IS_ROOT?

2018-05-26 Thread Lei Chen
Hello list, I'm insteresting in how hard link and denry lookup work and their implementation. I know that this interface tries to connect an inode to a dentry, but why does it need to check whether the inode alias IS_ROOT if the inode represents a directory? And the code process in different way

Re: Linux 4.4.128

2018-04-16 Thread Lei Chen
, Lei Chen 2018-04-14 4:24 GMT+08:00 Greg KH : > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.128 kernel. > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. > > The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.g

floating point computation error caused by eagerfpu

2018-03-23 Thread Lei Chen
f the CPU supports eager mode. But the test result shows that there might be FPU context corruption. Having googled around, I don't find similar report. Could FPU experts shed some light on this issue? Thanks, Lei Chen