Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-03 Thread Michael Dressel
Hi, it is me who reported the issue on archlinux. Let me know if I can help with reproducing the issue or anything else. For curiosity, could anyone explain to me what change in the 4.4 kernel created the issue for openafs? Or rather what was the intention of the change in 4.4? Cheers, Michael  

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-06 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Michael Dressel wrote: > Hi, > > it is me who reported the issue on archlinux. Let me know if I can help > with reproducing the issue or anything else. > For curiosity, could anyone explain to me what change in the 4.4 kernel > created the issue for openafs? Or rather what was

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-07 Thread Stephen Joyce
I'm no C programmer, but from my rudimentary reading of the code, wasn't there always a chance for -ERESTARTSYS to be returned from inside the while() loop inside splice_from_pipe_next(...)? On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Michael Dressel wrote: Hi, it is me w

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-07 Thread Chas Williams
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 01:42 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Michael Dressel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > it is me who reported the issue on archlinux. Let me know if I can > help > > with reproducing the issue or anything else. > > For curiosity, could anyone explain to me what chan

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Presumably. But no one seems to have reproduced the necessary conditions in a way that allowed the root cause to be tracked down until now, so it went unnoticed. -Ben On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Stephen Joyce wrote: > I'm no C programmer, but from my rudimentary reading of the code, wasn't there > alwa

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Chas Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 01:42 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > > I am given to understand that the proximal trigger is linux commit > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/ > > ?id=c725bfce7968009756ed2836a8cd7ba4dc163011

Re: Aw: RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-08 Thread Chas Williams
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Chas Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 01:42 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > > > > I am given to understand that the proximal trigger is linux commit > > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torval