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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:27:21 +1300
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Josh Snyder <joshs@...flix.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:23 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> So I've done some basic smoke testing (~2 hours of LTP+xfstests) on the
> kernel with the three topmost patches from
>
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/jikos.git/log/?h=pagecache-sidechannel
>
> applied (also attaching to this mail), and no obvious breakage popped up.
>
> So if noone sees any principal problem there, I'll happily submit it with
> proper attribution etc.

So this seems to have died down, and a week later we seem to not have
a lot of noise here any more. I think it means people either weren't
testing it, or just didn't find any real problems.

I've reverted the 'let's try to just remove the code' part in my tree.
But I didn't apply the two other patches yet. Any final comments
before that should happen?

                     Linus