linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage

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Message-ID: <20200219182230.GG30966@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:22:30 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from
 bzImage

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> There isn't any particular urgency (at least until fg-kaslr patches try

Ok, I was just making sure you're not pinging because there's something
more urgent here. See below.

> to make it 64MiB bigger), but it's unclear how long to wait before
> sending a reminder -- Documentation/process suggests that comments
> should be received in a week or so, pinging after 4 and 6 weeks seemed
> reasonable. If x86 has a longer queue, might be worth documenting that
> somewhere?

We try to track all stuff but x86 is super crazy most of the time,
especially currently, so stuff gets prioritized based on urgency and we
also try to round-robin through all submitters so that stuff doesn't get
left out.

Thus the one-week thing will never work with x86. Once a month ping
maybe.

In your case, since it is an improvement which is good to have but not
absolutely a must and not a bugfix, it is understandable that it would
get pushed back in priority.

But stuff usually won't be forgotten and we'll get to it eventually - it
is just that we're mega swamped all the time. :-\

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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