Re: [PATCH 00/18] prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution

2018-01-08 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 01/05/18 22:30, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Please expand this. It is not clear what the static analysis is looking for. Have a clear description of what is being fixed is crucial for allowing any of these changes. For the details given in

Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 00/12] drop unneeded newline

2018-01-02 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 15:00 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Bob Peterson wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > - Original Message - > > > > > Still, the GFS2 and DLM code has a plethora of broken-up printk messages, > > and I don't like the thought of re-combining t

Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: gadget: restore tristate-choice for legacy gadgets

2017-12-11 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 12:30 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > One patch that was meant as a cleanup apparently did more than it intended, > allowing all combinations of legacy gadget drivers to be built into the > kernel, and leaving an empty 'choice' statement behind: > > drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:4

Re: Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

2016-11-23 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 11/23/2016 09:13 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: IMO any memory that has been registered for a P2P transaction should be locked from being evicted. So if there's a get_user_pages call it needs to be pinned until the put_page. The main issue being with the RDMA case: handling an eviction when a chun

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

2016-11-19 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 11/19/16 09:15, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Might there be a tool or an extension out there that would allow us > to express these diagrams in a text-friendly, editable form? How about using the graphviz languages for generating diagrams that can be described easily in one of the graphviz langua