Re: [GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-02 Thread Andrea Righi
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 08:29:17AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:21:09PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 21:02, Linus Torvalds > > wrote: > > > > > > kmalloc() isn't just about "use physically contiguous allocations". > > > It's also more

Re: [GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-02 Thread Andrea Righi
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:21:09PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 21:02, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > > kmalloc() isn't just about "use physically contiguous allocations". > > It's also more memory-efficient, and a *lot* faster than vmalloc(), > > which has to play VM

Re: [GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-02 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Wed, 1 Nov 2023 13:13:03 -0700: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/ > tags/modules-6.7-rc1 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/21e80f3841c01aeaf32d7aee7bbc87b3db1aa0c6 Thank you! --

Re: [GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-02 Thread Andrea Righi
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:02:51PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 10:13, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > > The only thing worth highligthing is that gzip moves to use vmalloc() > > instead of > > kmalloc just as we had a fix for this for zstd on v6.6-rc1. > > Actually,

Re: [GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 21:02, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > kmalloc() isn't just about "use physically contiguous allocations". > It's also more memory-efficient, and a *lot* faster than vmalloc(), > which has to play VM tricks. I've pulled this, but I think you should do something like the attached

Re: [GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 10:13, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > The only thing worth highligthing is that gzip moves to use vmalloc() instead > of > kmalloc just as we had a fix for this for zstd on v6.6-rc1. Actually, that's almost certainly entirely the wrong thing to do. Unless you *know* that the

[GIT PULL] Modules changes for v6.7-rc1

2023-11-01 Thread Luis Chamberlain
The following changes since commit 7d461b291e65938f15f56fe58da2303b07578a76: Merge tag 'drm-next-2023-10-31-1' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm (2023-11-01 06:28:35 -1000) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/