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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:45:15 +0100
From: Petr Tesařík <petr@...arici.cz>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] sbm: SandBox Mode documentation
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:11:05 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 08:42:54PM +0100, Petr Tesařík wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:48:52 +0100
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 05:31:12PM +0100, Petr Tesařík wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:11:05 +0100
> > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Petr Tesařík wrote:
> > > > > > OK, so why didn't I send the whole thing?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Decomposition of the kernel requires many more changes, e.g. in linker
> > > > > > scripts. Some of them depend on this patch series. Before I go and
> > > > > > clean up my code into something that can be submitted, I want to get
> > > > > > feedback from guys like you, to know if the whole idea would be even
> > > > > > considered, aka "Fail Fast".
> > > > >
> > > > > We can't honestly consider this portion without seeing how it would
> > > > > work, as we don't even see a working implementation that uses it to
> > > > > verify it at all.
> > > > >
> > > > > The joy of adding new frameworks is that you need a user before anyone
> > > > > can spend the time to review it, sorry.
> > > >
> > > > Thank your for a quick assessment. Will it be sufficient if I send some
> > > > code for illustration (with some quick&dirty hacks to bridge the gaps),
> > > > or do you need clean and nice kernel code?
> > >
> > > We need a real user in the kernel, otherwise why would we even consider
> > > it? Would you want to review a new subsystem that does nothing and has
> > > no real users? If not, why would you want us to? :)
> >
> > Greg, please enlighten me on the process. How is something like this
> > supposed to get in?
>
> If you were in our shoes, what would you want to see in order to be able
> to properly review and judge if a new subsystem was ok to accept?
>
> > Subsystem maintainers will not review code that depends on core features
> > not yet reviewed by the respective maintainers. If I add only the API
> > and a stub implementation, then it brings no benefit and attempts to
> > introduce the API will be dismissed. I would certainly do just that if
> > I was a maintainer...
>
> Exactly, you need a real user.
Er, what I was trying to say was rather: You need a real implementation
of a core feature before a subsystem maintainer considers using it for
their subsystem.
But I get your point. I need *both*.
> > I could try to pack everything (base infrastructure, arch
> > implementations, API users) into one big patch with pretty much
> > everybody on the Cc list, but how is that ever going to get reviewed?
>
> How are we supposed to know if any of this even works at all if you
> don't show that it actually works and is useful? Has any of that work
> even been done yet? I'm guessing it has (otherwise you wouldn't have
> posted this), but you are expecting us to just "trust us, stuff in the
> future is going to use this and need it" here.
Understood.
> Again, we can not add new infrastructure for things that have no users,
> nor do you want us to. Ideally you will have at least 3 different
> users, as that seems to be the "magic number" that shows that the
> api/interface will actually work well, and is flexible enough. Just
> one user is great for proof-of-concept, but that usually isn't good
> enough to determine if it will work for others (and so it wouldn't need
> to be infrastructure at all, but rather just part of that one feature on
> its own.)
>
> > Should I just go and maintain an out-of-tree repo for a few years,
> > hoping that it gets merged one day, like bcachefs? Is this the way?
>
> No, show us how this is going to be used.
OK, working on it.
> Again, think about what you would want if you had to review this.
Review, or merge? For a review, I would want enough information to
understand what it is *and* where it is going.
As a matter of fact, hpa does not like the x86 implementation. For
reasons that I do not fully understand (yet), but if the concept turns
out to be impractical, then my submission will serve a purpose, as I
can save myself (and anybody else with a similar idea) a lot of work by
failing fast.
Is this a valid way to get early feedback?
Thanks,
Petr T
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