Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 03:39:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 3:16 PM Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > > It goes back to forever, it looks like. I can't find a reason. > > mincore() was originally added in 2.3.52pre3, it looks like. Around > 2000 or so. But sadly before th

Re: [GIT PULL v2] Thermal-SoC management updates for v4.21-rc1

The pull request you sent on Wed, 2 Jan 2019 12:05:33 -0800: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/c280230254635da33703dd8f4a10cad23f640fb0 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a

Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 4:11 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > FreeBSD claims to have a manpage from SunOS 4.1.3 with mincore (!) > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mincore&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=SunOS+4.1.3&arch=default&format=html > > DESCRIPTION >mincore() returns the primar

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed implementation

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 03:32:44AM +, Wang, Wei W wrote: > On Friday, January 4, 2019 11:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > struct virtio_balloon { > > > struct virtio_device *vdev; > > > struct virtqueue *inflate_vq, *deflate_vq, *stats_vq, *free_page_vq; > > > @@ -77,6 +81,8 @@ struc

Re: [GIT PULL 1/4] Kbuild updates for v4.21

Hi Linus, On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 5:44 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 12:39 PM Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > Not exactly what you ask for - but we have make V=2 > > Yeah, that's certainly more convenient than "make --debug". > > That said, I was more thinking of not any partic

Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle: check for redeclaration

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:32 AM Julia Lawall wrote: > > Avoid reporting on the use of an iterator index variable when > the variable is redeclared. > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > > --- Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks! > scripts/coccinelle/iterators/use_after_iter.cocci |3 +++ > 1 fi

Re: [PATCH] scripts: coccinelle: boolinit: drop warnings on named constants

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:14 PM Julia Lawall wrote: > > Coccinelle doesn't always have access to the values of named > (#define) constants, and they may likely often be bound to true > and false values anyway, resulting in false positives. So stop > warning about them. > > Signed-off-by: Julia L

Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 4:22 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But I think my patch to just rip out all that page lookup, and just > base it on the page table state has the fundamental advantage that it > gets rid of code. Maybe I should jst commit it, and see if anything > breaks? We do have options in

Re: [PATCH 1/5] riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:32 AM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > This commit removes redundant generic-y defines in > arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild. > > [1] It is redundant to define the same generic-y in both > arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild and > arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild. > >

[GIT PULL] more Kbuild updates for v4.21

Hi Linus, Here are late Kbuild updates. I am sending this pull request in the last minute to avoid conflicts from tree-wide cleanups such as jump_label, generic-y. Please pull! The following changes since commit 5c4a60831aa6d937cec9cf17aef8eb6c1851bfcd: Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kern

Re: [PATCH 2/3] RISC-V: Move cpuid to hartid mapping to SMP.

On 12/26/18 7:38 PM, Anup Patel wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:39 AM Atish Patra wrote: Currently, logical CPU id to physical hartid mapping is defined for both smp and non-smp configurations. This is not required as we need this only for smp configuration. The mapping function can define di

Re: [PATCH 3/3] RISC-V: Fix non-smp kernel boot on SMP systems

On 12/26/18 7:58 PM, Anup Patel wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:39 AM Atish Patra wrote: In non-smp configuration, hartid can be higher that NR_CPUS. riscv_of_processor_hartid should not be compared to hartid to NR_CPUS in that case. Moreover, this function checks all the DT properties of a h

Re: [GIT PULL] PCI changes for v4.21

The pull request you sent on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:05:52 -0600: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git > tags/pci-v4.21-changes has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/926b02d3eb547daa1d56cf9b586f31b270488b77 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot

Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull RDMA subsystem changes

The pull request you sent on Fri, 4 Jan 2019 05:00:10 +: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git tags/for-linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/3954e1d0310e30e743431b58918825c4d4fe8812 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot.

Re: [GIT PULL v2] HID for 4.21

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Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev changes for v4.21

The pull request you sent on Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:09:05 +0100: > https://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git tags/fbdev-v4.21 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/a8a6b1186b1a209647483c2ff81e0d59c43dbdd3 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.wiki.k

Re: [git pull] drm next fixes for rc1

The pull request you sent on Sat, 5 Jan 2019 05:10:22 +1000: > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm tags/drm-next-2019-01-05 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/0fe4e2d5cd931ad2ff99d61cfdd5c6dc0c3ec60b Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://kor

Re: [PULL REQUEST] i2c for 5.0 (or how it will be called)

The pull request you sent on Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:06:44 +0100: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git i2c/for-5.0 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/7671c14e6aca7a816a29a85eba47d9bccb7d23ae Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. ht

Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation fixes

The pull request you sent on Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:02:39 -0700: > git://git.lwn.net/linux.git tags/docs-5.0-fixes has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/b5aef86e089a2d85a6d627372287785d08938cbe Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.wiki.kernel.o

Re: [GIT PULL] livepatching for 4.21

The pull request you sent on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:39:18 +0100 (CET): > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching.git for-linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/1686cc1a31f45a3fd090e5d0c6fce777422e13fa Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I

Re: [git pull] FireWire (IEEE 1394) update post v4.20

The pull request you sent on Sat, 5 Jan 2019 17:05:40 +0100: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394.git > firewire-update has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/15b215e5aa29993c1b0f46693a1b482296bcf08e Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot

[PATCH V3] usbcore: Select only first configuration for non-UAC3 compliant devices

From: Saranya Gopal In most of the UAC1 and UAC2 audio devices, the first configuration is most often the best configuration. However, with recent patch to support UAC3 configuration, second configuration was unintentionally chosen for some of the UAC1/2 devices that had more than one configurati

(Audio/Video) Linux and GPLv2 license rescission. (previous was removed by liveleak)

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Re: (Audio/Video): The Truth about Linux GPLv2 and license recission (revocation).

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[PATCH 1/1] net: bridge: fix a bug on using a neighbour cache entry without checking its state

From: JianJhen Chen When handling DNAT'ed packets on a bridge device, the neighbour cache entry from lookup was used without checking its state. It means that a cache entry in the NUD_STALE state will be used directly instead of entering the NUD_DELAY state to confirm the reachability of the neig

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: rotary_encoder - Support key events

input_sync() is there, at the end of the function. static void rotary_encoder_report_event(struct rotary_encoder *encoder) { if (encoder->relative_axis) { input_report_rel(encoder->input, encoder->axis, encoder->dir); } else if (encoder->relative_keys) { u32 key

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Input: rotaty-encoder - Add DT binding document

Yes, it's needed. Even with the same encoder, adjusting steps affects rate of event generation. (the steps defines 1 cycle of encoder rotation, and 1 cycle = 1 key event.) On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 8:11 AM Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 2:27 PM Donghoon Han wrote: > > > > Add DT

[PATCH v2] arm64: dts: rockchip: add ROCK Pi 4 DTS support

From: Akash Gajjar ROCK Pi 4 is RK3399 based SBC from radxa.com. board has a 1G/2G/4G lpddr4, CSI, DSI, HDMI, OTG, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, 10/100/1000 RGMII Ethernet Phy, es8316 codec, POE, WIFI (for Model B only), PCIE M.2 support on board. This patch enables - HDMI Display - Console - MMC, EMMC - US

Re: [PATCH net 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process

On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 07:10, David Miller wrote: > > From: Taehee Yoo > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 01:31:43 +0900 > > > +void exit_umh(struct task_struct *tsk) > > +{ > > + struct umh_info *info; > > + pid_t pid = tsk->pid; > > + > > + mutex_lock(&umh_list_lock); > > + list_for_each_e

Re: [PATCH] tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump

On 1/6/19 12:52 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > There is a memory leak in case genlmsg_put fails. > > Fix this by freeing *args* before return. > > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1476406 ("Resource leak") > Fixes: 46273cf7e009 ("tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put") > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. S

(Video) Linux and GPLv2 license rescission: Explained in American.

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(Video): Regarding Linux: yes you can rescind license to use your code.

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Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] mm/memblock: extend the limit inferior of bottom-up after parsing hotplug attr

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 11:44:50AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > On 01/04/19 at 05:09pm, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:47:06AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:05:38PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > > I agree that currently the botto

Re: knifeshack (Linux Property rights)

Your "no it does not because we are talking about software" argument is, to put it simply in a way you can understand: retarded. It shows that you, a software engineer, because you are learned in one field of endeavor, believe yourself to be "smart" and "reasonable" in unrelated fields of ende

Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wilc1000: fix cast to restricted __le32

Thank you for your review Larry > Before you send V3 Oh, v3 was already sent a few moments before your message. > Before you send V3, are you sure this is the correct fix? As "frame_type" is > input as u16, it seems to me that the frame_type member of struct > wilc_reg_frame > should be __le16,

[PATCH 2/2] tpm/eventlog/tpm1: Fix off-by-1 when reading binary_bios_measurements

It is unable to read the entry when it is the only one in binary_bios_measurements: 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 c4 2f ed ad 26 82 00 cb 0010 1d 15 f9 78 41 c3 44 e7 9d ae 33 20 00 00 00 00 0020 This is obviously a firmware problem on my linux machine: Manufacturer: Inspu

[PATCH 1/2] tpm/eventlog/tpm1: Simplify walking over *pos measurements

The sanity check would be easier, especially for the first read of binary_bios_measurements from the beginning. Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang --- drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/tpm1.c | 37 ++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/t

dfl-afu-dma-region.c:undefined reference to `dma_direct_map_page'

Hi Christoph, FYI, the error/warning still remains. tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master head: b5aef86e089a2d85a6d627372287785d08938cbe commit: 356da6d0cde3323236977fce54c1f9612a742036 dma-mapping: bypass indirect calls for dma-direct date: 3 wee

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