Dan Williams wrote:
> Shall I wait for your further reworks to fix this for v5.8, or is that
> v5.9 material?
It could do with stewing in linux-next for a while, so 5.9 probably.
David
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:55 PM David Howells wrote:
>
> Dan Williams wrote:
>
> > > This commit:
> > >
> > > > keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask
> > >
> > > ...upstream as:
> > >
> > > 8c0637e950d6 keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a
> > >
Dan Williams wrote:
> > This commit:
> >
> > > keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask
> >
> > ...upstream as:
> >
> > 8c0637e950d6 keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask
> >
> > ...triggers a regression in the libnvdimm unit test that exercises
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 6:15 PM Williams, Dan J
wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 16:55 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:51:44 +0100
> >
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > Can you pull this, please? It adds a general notification queue
> > concept
> > and adds an event
Hi David,
On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 16:55 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:51:44 +0100
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> Can you pull this, please? It adds a general notification queue
> concept
> and adds an event source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and
> unlinking
> keys and
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:05 PM David Howells wrote:
> > I'm so far just reading this thread and the arguments for users, and I
> > haven't yet looked at all the actual details in the pull request - but
> > last time I had objections to things it wasn't the code, it was the
> > lack of any use.
The pull request you sent on Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:55:04 +0100:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> tags/notifications-20200601
has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/6c3297841472b4e53e22e53826eea9e483d993e5
Thank you!
--
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:47 AM Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> If we have multiple uses, and one of them notices some problem that
> requires any ABI changes, but the other one has already started using
> it, we'll have more problems.
Ok, it's merged in my tree, although I was somewhat unhappy about
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 6:05 AM David Howells wrote:
>
> Would you be willing at this point to consider pulling the mount notifications
> and fsinfo() which helps support that? I could whip up pull reqs for those
> two pieces - or do you want to see more concrete patches that use it?
I'd want
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > All the next operations are done with "fd". It's nowhere used as a
> > pipe, and nothing uses pipefd[1].
>
> As an aside, that isn't necessarily true.
>
> In some of the examples, pipefd[1] is used for configuration (sizing
> and adding filters), although I think
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm not even convinced O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE is necessary, but at worst
> it will be a useful marker. I think the only real reason for it was to
> avoid any clashes with splice(), which has more complex use of the
> pipe buffers.
The main reason is to prevent splice
[ Actually going through the code now ]
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:13 AM Karel Zak wrote:
>
> All the next operations are done with "fd". It's nowhere used as a
> pipe, and nothing uses pipefd[1].
As an aside, that isn't necessarily true.
In some of the examples, pipefd[1] is used for
[ Finally getting around to this since my normal pull queue is now empty ]
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:13 AM Karel Zak wrote:
>
> The notification stuff looks pretty promising, but I do not understand
> why we need to use pipe for this purpose
The original intent was never to use the "pipe()"
Hi Linus,
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:55:04PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Can you pull this, please? It adds a general notification queue concept
I'm trying to use David's notification stuff in userspace, and I guess
feedback is welcome :-)
The notification stuff looks pretty promising,
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:55:04PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:51:44 +0100
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> Can you pull this, please? It adds a general notification queue concept
> and adds an event source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking
> keys and changing their
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 10:15 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 16:55 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > [[ With regard to the mount/sb notifications and fsinfo(), Karel
> > Zak
> > and
> >Ian Kent have been working on making libmount use them,
> > preparatory to
> >working on
On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 16:55 +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> [[ With regard to the mount/sb notifications and fsinfo(), Karel Zak
> and
>Ian Kent have been working on making libmount use them,
> preparatory to
>working on systemd:
>
>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:51:44 +0100
Hi Linus,
Can you pull this, please? It adds a general notification queue concept
and adds an event source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking
keys and changing their attributes.
Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to
Oops - I forgot to include the pull request. Will resend.
David
Hi Linus,
Can you pull this, please? It adds a general notification queue concept
and adds an event source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking
keys and changing their attributes.
Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to fix a
problem with
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