linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumping

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Message-ID: <fc3b45c91e5cd50baa1fec7710f1e64cbe616f77.camel@ozlabs.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:51:56 +0800
From:   Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumping

Hi Al & Christoph,

> Again, this really needs fixing.  Preferably - as a separate commit
> preceding this series, so that it could be
> backported.  simple_read_from_buffer() is a blocking operation.

I'll put together a patch that fixes this.

Christoph: I'll do it in a way that matches your changes to the _read
functions, so hopefully those hunks would just drop from your change,
leaving only the _dump additions. Would that work?

Cheers,


Jeremy