linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] pipe: Fixes [ver #2]

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Message-ID: <xnsglsubso.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
Date:   Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:58:15 -0500
From:   DJ Delorie <dj@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dsterba@...e.cz, dhowells@...hat.com,
        ebiggers@...nel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] pipe: Fixes [ver #2]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> [ Added DJ to the participants, since he seems to be the Fedora make
> maintainer - DJ, any chance that this absolutely horrid 'make' buf can
> be fixed in older versions too, not just rawhide? The bugfix is two
> and a half years old by now, and the bug looks real and very serious ]

I've got builds ready for F30 and F31 but my local testing shows no
difference in kernel build times with/without.  I was hoping someone
would test the rawhide build[*] and say "yup, that fixes it" in case
some other even older patch is also needed.

F29 just went EOL so I can't fix that one.

[*] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1420394