Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support

2016-07-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2016 15:58:20 +1000, Michael Ellerman said: > I then get two hits, which may or may not be valid: > > [2.309556] usercopy: kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to > d3510028 (kernfs_node_cache) (64 bytes) > [2.309995] CPU: 7 PID: 2241 Comm: wait-for-root Not tai

Re: MPC8641 based custom board Kernel stuck at 1000Mhz core clock

2014-03-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:04:37 +0530, Ashish said: > Hi, > > I am using MPC8641-HPCN based custom board and able to boot linux at > MPX clock 400Mhz and core clock 800mhz. When I am increasing core > frequency ie MPX clock at 400Mhz and core at 1Ghz, kernel stuck. Step 0: Prove to us that your co

Re: [PATCH 00/15] change default_llseek action

2010-09-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:22:28 +0200, Arnd Bergmann said: > This changes *all* instances of struct file_operations in > the kernel to have a .llseek operation and then changes > the default to no_llseek, which returns -ESPIPE, which > is what we had decided some time ago in a discussion > with Chris

Re: 2.6.35-stable/ppc64/p7: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage detected during 2.6.35-stable boot

2010-09-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:12:00 PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" said: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:22:12PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The following suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage is detected > > during 2.6.35-stable boot on my ppc64/p7 machine: > > > > = > >

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness

2008-02-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to > > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF. > > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalB

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness

2008-02-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said: > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb). > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting > special > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign > e

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix Unlikely(x) == y

2008-02-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:27:10 GMT, David Howells said: > __builtin_expect() is useful on FRV where you _have_ to give each branch and > conditional branch instruction a measure of probability whether the branch > will be taken. What does gcc do the 99.998% of the time we don't have likely/unlikely