Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v4 02/10] asm/nospec, array_ptr: sanitize speculative array de-references

2018-01-19 Thread Adam Sampson
ong) (idx < sz)); causes GCC, on ia32 and amd64, to generate exactly the same cmp/sbb sequence as in Linus's asm. Are there architectures where this form would allow speculation? Thanks, -- Adam Sampson <http://offog.org/>

[PATCH v2] ASoC: sun4i-codec: use consistent names for PA controls

2015-10-27 Thread Adam Sampson
er Amplifier" consistently for the power amplifier's controls. Signed-off-by: Adam Sampson --- Changes in v2: - use "Power Amplifier" rather than "PA" --- sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-codec.c | 27 ++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-

[PATCH] ASoC: sun4i-codec: use consistent names for PA controls

2015-10-24 Thread Adam Sampson
s, leading to user-visible controls with different names referring to the same device. When this driver implements audio input, it'll also need to expose controls for the line and mic input preamps, so just referring to "the Pre-Amplifier" will be ambiguous. Change it to use "

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-05 Thread Adam Sampson
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things >marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, or a real security issue. So a trivial patch that fixed a data corruption issue wouldn't be accepted? -- Adam Sampson

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread Adam Sampson
ntk would actually print to the screen, and module startup messages would use a predefined prefix). Might be handy for debugging. -- Adam Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://azz.us-lot.org/> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-21 Thread Adam Sampson
like C rather than in raw assembly. 30 years ago we didn't have C compilers that produce better code than you can write by hand. ;) -- Adam Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://azz.us-lot.org/> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-20 Thread Adam Sampson
96 Swap: 1048784 52176 996608 (azz:~) vmstat procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 1 0 0 52184 1588 30348 224876 0 25362 153 400 68 10 22 .config

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-20 Thread Adam Sampson
hine where they loaded their resources from (suppose I start an X session on my workstation, then ssh over to a server and run CML2; it would then read server:~/.Xdefaults rather than workstation:~/.Xdefaults). It's much more sensible to use the normal X mechanisms for reading resources from the

VM balancing problems under 2.4.2-ac1

2001-02-23 Thread Adam Sampson
cache si sobibo incs us sy id 1 0 0 102620 1796 85836 43880 100 025 0 190 587 12 3 85 -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Adam Sampson
since they cause my machine to go heavily into swap even when there's plenty of real memory free. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Crash using DRI with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Adam Sampson
X with ALi M1541/3). There was a patch to properly support AGP on these boards which went in between 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 which solved the problem for me (at least in 2.4.0; I haven't tested DRI throughly in 2.4.1 yet). -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Sampson
to /lib/modules, which makes depmod whinge). Thanks! Are there any plans to include Ian Hastie's ALi M1541 agpgart patches in 2.4.0? They appear to do the job here... -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Adam Sampson
.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mga.o: unresolved symbol mtrr_add /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mga.o: unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mga.o: unresolved symbol schedule [...] -- Adam Sampson [E

Re: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Adam Sampson
provide a patch that works. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Adam Sampson
would appear that the while() is now redundant, but could someone who knows confirm/deny this? -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Adam Sampson
than 2 gig. You can remove it by just calling unlink. int main(int argc, char **argv) { unlink("mybigfile"); } -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: non-gcc linux?

2000-11-06 Thread Adam Sampson
uot;this is a gruesome hack" comments in the source code. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

2000-10-23 Thread Adam Sampson
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Too bad nobody on this list works at an electronics design company... ;-P Doesn't Transmeta count as an electronics design company? ;) -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: problems with 2.4.0-test8

2000-10-03 Thread Adam Sampson
the emergency sync, of course). On the plus side, test9-pre9 + reiserfs seems to be working nicely. Good job, guys. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[ReiserFS PATCH] fs/Makefile changes in pre8

2000-10-02 Thread Adam Sampson
FIG_REISERFS_FS) += reiserfs obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT) += binfmt_aout.o -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits

2000-10-02 Thread Adam Sampson
me without using --sort=start to ask for it) Why not use 32-bit PIDs in the kernel, but make the number at which they wrap a configurable option? That way, most users can keep the numbers small for ease of management, and people who really need 100,000 processes can have them. -- Adam Sampson [EM

Re: test9-pre7

2000-09-26 Thread Adam Sampson
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:23:04PM +0100, Adam Sampson wrote: > However, I'm probably not a useful datapoint, as I'm running 2.4.0-test8 + > reiserfs-3.9.16 + 2.4.0-t8-sched + 2.4.0-t8-vmpatch4. Just happened again with test9-pre7; looked like it was caused by gcc eating lots of

Re: test9-pre7

2000-09-26 Thread Adam Sampson
f RAM, a few IDE disks and an NE2000 card, running XFree86 v4.0.1. Previous 2.4.0-test kernels have been rock solid for me, which is probably a good sign. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: elevator code

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Sampson
not named "Linux" > > anymore, so these types of changes may occur more quickly since there > > will be independent paths. > > That is news to me. What are those "other Linuxes", and where do I find them? uCLinux (http://www.uclinux.org/) and Linux86 (u

Re: Multiple Keyboards in 2.2/2.4?

2000-09-10 Thread Adam Sampson
r everyone? Do we want a all or nothing > policy? Eventually? It would be nice to have it only available on some consoles, as you say, but for now it's safe to just disable it everywhere. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: Multiple Keyboards in 2.2/2.4?

2000-09-08 Thread Adam Sampson
d > on it. That particular one is a userspace issue; you can simply tell init not to do anything when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed. (You'd also want to disable magic-sysrq for the same reason.) -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

2000-09-08 Thread Adam Sampson
r packages (lesstif, kbd, WindowMaker, ORBit, ALSA, bin86, esd, links etc.) still retain "alpha" (<1.0) version numbers despite being stable, reliable and widely-used. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/