[PATCH] docs: arm: Fix RAM offset requirement for loading a raw image

2019-09-10 Thread Alexandru Elisei
Commit 83d26d1113d8 ("ARM: 7824/1: update advice on kernel, initramfs and FDT load address.") changed the offset requirement for loading a raw kernel image into RAM from 32KiB (0x8000) to TEXT_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET, which results in a negative value. Change the offset to be TEXT_OFFSET, which has an

Re: [PATCH] doc: replace IFF abbreviation with 'if and only if'

2019-09-10 Thread Federico Vaga
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:35:10 AM CEST Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Federico Vaga wrote: > > In a normal piece of text the use of 'iff' does not guarantee a correct > > interpretation because it is easy to confuse it for a typo (if or iff?). > > > >

Re: [PATCH v2] printf: add support for printing symbolic error codes

2019-09-10 Thread Andy Shevchenko
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:39 PM Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > > It has been suggested several times to extend vsnprintf() to be able > to convert the numeric value of ENOSPC to print "ENOSPC". This is yet > another attempt. Rather than adding another %p extension, simply teach > plain %p to convert ER

Re: [PATCH v3] doc: kvm: Fix return description of KVM_SET_MSRS

2019-09-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 05/09/19 02:57, Xiaoyao Li wrote: > Userspace can use ioctl KVM_SET_MSRS to update a set of MSRs of guest. > This ioctl set specified MSRs one by one. If it fails to set an MSR, > e.g., due to setting reserved bits, the MSR is not supported/emulated by > KVM, etc..., it stops processing the MSR

[PATCH 0/4] Documentation/process: embargoed hardware issues additions

2019-09-10 Thread Dave Hansen
Intel will adhere to this process for future hardware embargoed issues. This series contains a patch from Tony Luck with him volunteering to be Intel's ambassador for this process. These are some minor improvements here to the process document. I've had the pleasure of seeing some of the problem

[PATCH 2/4] Documentation/process: describe relaxing disclosing party NDAs

2019-09-10 Thread Dave Hansen
From: Dave Hansen Hardware companies like Intel have lots of information which they want to disclose to some folks but not others. Non-disclosure agreements are a tool of choice for helping to ensure that the flow of information is controlled. But, they have caused problems in mitigation deve

[PATCH 1/4] Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Intel

2019-09-10 Thread Dave Hansen
From: Tony Luck Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Andrew Cooper Cc: Trilok Soni Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Tony Luck Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dan Williams Signed-off-b

[PATCH 4/4] Documentation/process: add transparency promise to list subscription

2019-09-10 Thread Dave Hansen
From: Dave Hansen Transparency is good. It it essential for everyone working under an embargo to know who is involved and who else is a "knower". Being transparent allows everyone to always make informed decisions about ongoing participating in a mitigation effort. Add a step to the subscrip

[PATCH 3/4] Documentation/process: soften language around conference talk dates

2019-09-10 Thread Dave Hansen
From: Dave Hansen Both hardware companies and the kernel community prefer coordinated disclosure to the alternatives. It is also obvious that sitting on ready-to-go mitigations for months is not so nice for kernel maintainers. I want to ensure that the patched text can not be read as "the ker

Re: [PATCH v2] printf: add support for printing symbolic error codes

2019-09-10 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 18:26 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:39 PM Rasmus Villemoes > wrote: > > It has been suggested several times to extend vsnprintf() to be able > > to convert the numeric value of ENOSPC to print "ENOSPC". This is yet > > another attempt. Rather than

Re: [PATCH next v2] softirq: enable MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME tuning with sysctl, max_softirq_time_msecs

2019-09-10 Thread Zhiqiang Liu
Friendly ping... On 2019/6/25 11:13, Zhiqiang Liu wrote: > From: Zhiqiang liu > > In __do_softirq func, MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME was set to 2ms via experimentation by > commit c10d73671 ("softirq: reduce latencies") in 2013, which was designed > to reduce latencies for various network workloads. The key

Re: [PATCH v2] printf: add support for printing symbolic error codes

2019-09-10 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
On 11/09/2019 02.15, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 18:26 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:39 PM Rasmus Villemoes >> wrote: >>> +#define E(err) [err + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(err <= 0 || err > 300)] = #err >>> +#define E(err) [err - 512 + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(err < 51