linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Networking for v6.8-rc7

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:56:21 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Networking for v6.8-rc7

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 12:39, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> A few hours late, the commit on top fixes an odd "rcu_dereference()
> needs to know full type" build issue I can't repro..

Ugfh. That change literally makes a single load instruction be a
function call. Pretty sad, particularly with all the crazy CPU
mitigations causing that to be even more expensive than it is already.

I really don't see how that error can happen, it sounds very odd.

Oh well.

          Linus