Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-08 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:16:35AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.1

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.110 kernel. > > > > > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-06 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:24:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:58:04PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > and the techniques > > to deal with rdtsc disabling are well known and used in other existing > > attacks. > > Yes i've tested one of them for the spectre poc, but it real

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:58:04PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > It depends by whom :-) We benchmarked this machine a while ago at 93k > > connections per second on 4.9 on a single process and now I'm seeing > > about 60k for a single process. I don't want to digress too much about > > numbers now as

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
> It depends by whom :-) We benchmarked this machine a while ago at 93k > connections per second on 4.9 on a single process and now I'm seeing > about 60k for a single process. I don't want to digress too much about > numbers now as the test conditions certainly differ a bit, I'll have > to rerun

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.110 kernel. > > > > > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.110 kernel. > > > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. > > > > But be careful, there have been some reports of problems

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.110 kernel. > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. > > But be careful, there have been some reports of problems with this > release during the -rc review cycle. Hopefully all of those i

Re: Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Greg KH
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b4a83a490212..5977c4d71356 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2523,6 +2523,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely om

Linux 4.4.110

2018-01-05 Thread Greg KH
Move feature detection up Dave Hansen (2): kaiser: merged update kaiser: enhanced by kernel and user PCIDs Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.4.110 Guenter Roeck (1): kaiser: Set _PAGE_NX only if supported Hugh Dickins (25): kaiser: do not set _PAGE_NX on pgd_none ka