[PATCH 1/1] sched: Add micro quanta scheduling class

2019-09-06 Thread Xi Wang
Micro quanta is a lightweight scheduling class designed for microsecond level scheduling intervals. It provides a more flexible way to share cores between highly latency sensitive tasks with other tasks - limiting the cpu share of latency sensitive tasks and maintaining low scheduling latency at th

[PATCH 0/1] Add micro quanta scheduling class

2019-09-06 Thread Xi Wang
This is a scheduling class that does one thing really well: microsecond level scheduling granularity. There are many problems It doesn’t solve, e.g. there is minimal mutlicore support. Context switch and cache overheads are going to be higher but we found benefits outweigh drawbacks for certain app

[PATCH] Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues: Microsoft ambassador

2019-09-06 Thread Sasha Levin
Add Sasha Levin as Microsoft's process ambassador. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst b/Documentati

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:45:36 -0700 Joe Perches escreveu: > On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 09:07 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > There are currently 227 files that don't complain with the "up to line 3" > > rule, including COPYING (with should probably be excluded from the check). > > > > Patches

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Fri, 6 Sep 2019 08:34:57 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu: > Em Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:45:36 -0700 > Joe Perches escreveu: > > > On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 09:07 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > There are currently 227 files that don't complain with the "up to line 3" > > > rule, incl

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Address issues with SPDX requirements and PEP-263

2019-09-06 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:05:08 -0700 Joe Perches escreveu: > On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 16:57 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > The description at Documentation/process/license-rules.rst is very strict > > with regards to the position where the SPDX tags should be. > [] > > PS.: I sent already

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of > scripts/spdxcheck.py, and placed the corresponding patches at: > > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=spdx_pedantic Overall seems very n

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Address issues with SPDX requirements and PEP-263

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 09:02 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:05:08 -0700 > Joe Perches escreveu: > > > On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 16:57 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > The description at Documentation/process/license-rules.rst is very strict > > > with regards to

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 18:08:40 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this > millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without > requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when > the kernel is in

Re: [PATCH] doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 11:07:27 +0800 lixianfa wrote: > Fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region. > This makes Chinese translation smooth to read. > > Signed-off-by: lixinafa Applied, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Fri, 06 Sep 2019 05:20:30 -0700 Joe Perches escreveu: > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of > > scripts/spdxcheck.py, and placed the corresponding patches at: > > > > https://git.linuxtv.org/

Re: [PATCH] docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 00:06:23 +0800 John Garry wrote: > The reference driver no longer exists since commit 50f1242c6742 ("mtd: > fsl-quadspi: Remove the driver as it was replaced by spi-fsl-qspi.c"). > > Update reference to spi-fsl-qspi.c driver. > > Signed-off-by: John Garry So this appears to

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues: Microsoft ambassador

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 05:58:52 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote: > Add Sasha Levin as Microsoft's process ambassador. > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > --- > Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff

Re: [PATCH] docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver

2019-09-06 Thread John Garry
On 06/09/2019 15:52, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 00:06:23 +0800 John Garry wrote: The reference driver no longer exists since commit 50f1242c6742 ("mtd: fsl-quadspi: Remove the driver as it was replaced by spi-fsl-qspi.c"). Update reference to spi-fsl-qspi.c driver. Signed-off-

Re: [PATCH] docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 15:58:41 +0100 John Garry wrote: > I don't think that it was appropriate to apply this patch in the end - > maybe this could have been communicated better. If you check the > subsequent discussion in this thread, it seems that completely new > documentation is required: > >

Re: [PATCH] docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver

2019-09-06 Thread Tudor.Ambarus
On 09/06/2019 06:03 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 15:58:41 +0100 > John Garry wrote: > >> I don't think that it was appropriate to apply this patch in the end - >> maybe this could have been communicated better. If you check the >> subsequent discussion in this thread, it se

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Markus Heiser
In practice the python needs "-*- coding: utf-8 -*- to be in one of the first two lines. The SPDX tag in practice has to be in one of the first 15 lines: ap.add_argument('-m', '--maxlines', type=int, default=15, help='Maximum number of lines to scan in a file. Default 1

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues: Microsoft ambassador

2019-09-06 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 08:57:28AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 05:58:52 -0400 > Sasha Levin wrote: > > > Add Sasha Levin as Microsoft's process ambassador. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > > --- > > Documentation/process/embargoed-har

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 11:45 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Fri, 06 Sep 2019 05:20:30 -0700 > Joe Perches escreveu: > > > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of > > > scripts/spdxcheck.py, an

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Markus Heiser
Am 05.09.19 um 16:17 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:57:01AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule:

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of > scripts/spdxcheck.py, and placed the corresponding patches at: > > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=spdx_pedantic Your script needs a

[RFC PATCH] tools: Add SPDX license to man pages

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Warning: SPDX header for file tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.8 is at line 2 [] > The last one is interesting... what's the "very first line" where a > SPDX header tag should be on a man page? just fyi: It looks like .man pages could use a

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:33:42 -0700 Joe Perches escreveu: > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of > > scripts/spdxcheck.py, and placed the corresponding patches at: > > > > https://git.linuxtv.org/

Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 15:17 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:33:42 -0700 > Joe Perches escreveu: > > > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of > > > scripts/spdxcheck.py, an

[PATCH] Documentation/process: Add Qualcomm process ambassador for hardware security issues

2019-09-06 Thread Trilok Soni
Add Trilok Soni as process ambassador for hardware security issues from Qualcomm. Signed-off-by: Trilok Soni --- Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst b/Document

Re: [RFC PATCH] tools: Add SPDX license to man pages

2019-09-06 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:12:58 -0700 Joe Perches escreveu: > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Warning: SPDX header for file tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.8 is at line 2 > [] > > The last one is interesting... what's the "very first line" where a > > SPDX header tag sh

[PATCH] docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Perches
Standard integer promotion is already done and %hx and %hhx is useless so do not encourage the use of %hh[xudi] or %h[xudi]. As Linus said in: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgoxnmsj8GEVFJSvTwdnWm8wVJthefNk2n6+4TC=20...@mail.gmail.com/ It's a pointless warning, making for more complex

Re: [PATCH] docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]

2019-09-06 Thread Louis Taylor
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Standard integer promotion is already done and %hx and %hhx is useless > so do not encourage the use of %hh[xudi] or %h[xudi]. > > As Linus said in: > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgoxnmsj8GEVFJSvTwdnWm8wVJthefNk2n6+4TC=