Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On 04/16/2018 12:34 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so >> trivial and obvious and I got cc'd on the discussion. > > .. and I also verified that

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On 04/16/2018 12:34 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so >> trivial and obvious and I got cc'd on the discussion. > > .. and I also verified that it actually fixes the problem

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

* Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > > I was going through the bisection, with just a couple more rounds to > > go, but I guess I don't even need it. > > Ingo/Thomas: I will be

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

* Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > > I was going through the bisection, with just a couple more rounds to > > go, but I guess I don't even need it. > > Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so > trivial and obvious

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so > trivial and obvious and I got cc'd on the discussion. .. and I also verified that it actually fixes the problem Shuah reported. Not that

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so > trivial and obvious and I got cc'd on the discussion. .. and I also verified that it actually fixes the problem Shuah reported. Not that there really was any question

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I was going through the bisection, with just a couple more rounds to > go, but I guess I don't even need it. Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so trivial and obvious and I got

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I was going through the bisection, with just a couple more rounds to > go, but I guess I don't even need it. Ingo/Thomas: I will be just taking this directly, since it's so trivial and obvious and I got cc'd on the discussion.

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:55:38 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > End result: we actually removed more lines than we added: > > 13538 files changed, 627723 insertions(+), 818855 deletions(-) > > which is probably a first. Ever. In the history of the universe. Or at >

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:55:38 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > End result: we actually removed more lines than we added: > > 13538 files changed, 627723 insertions(+), 818855 deletions(-) > > which is probably a first. Ever. In the history of the universe. Or at > least kernel releases. For the

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > > Joerg just found and fixed something that would be poked by the x86 > selftests: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/16/230 Yup. And that silly bug explains the all-ones PTE. I was going through the bisection,

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > > Joerg just found and fixed something that would be poked by the x86 > selftests: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/16/230 Yup. And that silly bug explains the all-ones PTE. I was going through the bisection, with just a couple more rounds

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On 04/16/2018 10:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> I don't see *why* it would be badly set up, and that test works fine >> for me, though. > > AHHAH! > > I'm wrong. I can see it too. My desktop was

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On 04/16/2018 10:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> I don't see *why* it would be badly set up, and that test works fine >> for me, though. > > AHHAH! > > I'm wrong. I can see it too. My desktop was running 18b7fd1c93e5 (my > kernel

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I don't see *why* it would be badly set up, and that test works fine > for me, though. AHHAH! I'm wrong. I can see it too. My desktop was running 18b7fd1c93e5 (my kernel from Saturday, I hadn't rebooted

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I don't see *why* it would be badly set up, and that test works fine > for me, though. AHHAH! I'm wrong. I can see it too. My desktop was running 18b7fd1c93e5 (my kernel from Saturday, I hadn't rebooted it since), but I had 4.17-rc1 in

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Shuah Khan wrote: > > [ 884.496588] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fe810030 This is the LDT remap area. > [ 884.496614] Oops: 0009 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI This is RSVD + P, so it's a system read access that got a

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Shuah Khan wrote: > > [ 884.496588] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fe810030 This is the LDT remap area. > [ 884.496614] Oops: 0009 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI This is RSVD + P, so it's a system read access that got a protection fault due to

Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

Andy/Ingo, While running test_vsyscall_64 and fsgsbase_64 tests, I am seeing the following errors in dmesg. Also these tests either take forever to run or hang. I killed it after waiting for an hour or so. Unfortunately it makes the kselftest suite pain to run. Could you please take a look and

Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

Andy/Ingo, While running test_vsyscall_64 and fsgsbase_64 tests, I am seeing the following errors in dmesg. Also these tests either take forever to run or hang. I killed it after waiting for an hour or so. Unfortunately it makes the kselftest suite pain to run. Could you please take a look and

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:01:57AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > We actually have a fair amount of other removal and cleanups too. I > > was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the number of pull

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:01:57AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > We actually have a fair amount of other removal and cleanups too. I > > was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the number of pull requests that > > actually ended up

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We actually have a fair amount of other removal and cleanups too. I > was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the number of pull requests that > actually ended up removing a lot of lines. Some of it was staging >

Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We actually have a fair amount of other removal and cleanups too. I > was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the number of pull requests that > actually ended up removing a lot of lines. Some of it was staging > drivers that finally gave up

Linux 4.17-rc1

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window was pretty normal and is now closed. This does not seem to be shaping up to be a particularly big release, and there seems to be nothing particularly special about it. The most special thing that happened is purely numerology: we've passed the six

Linux 4.17-rc1

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window was pretty normal and is now closed. This does not seem to be shaping up to be a particularly big release, and there seems to be nothing particularly special about it. The most special thing that happened is purely numerology: we've passed the six