linux-kernel - Re: UML/hostfs - mount failure at tip of tree

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Message-ID: <CANP3RGdgnXOXjnAFe6irf2JwrPsStTLvihKkowpY2ggSgNw7KA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:55:52 -0700
From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@...wei.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, 
	Kernel hackers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Patrick Rohr <prohr@...gle.com>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: UML/hostfs - mount failure at tip of tree

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 18:35, Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@...wei.com> wrote:
> >
> > I apologize for causing this issue. I am currently tracking it down.  If
> > reverting this can solve the problem, you can revert it first.
>
> I don't get the feeling that this is _so_ urgent that it needs to be
> reverted immediately - let's give it at least a few days and see if
> you (or somebody else) figures out the bug.
>
> Maciej - if you can verify that folio conversion fix suggestion of
> mine (or alternatively report that it doesn't help and I was barking
> up the wrong tree), that would be great.

That appears to fix the folio patch indeed (ie. I no longer need to revert it).

The tests are still super unhappy, but I've yet to fix our tests very
broken netlink parser for changes that released in 6.10, so that may
be unrelated ;-)

> And perhaps remind me about this mount API thing too if it doesn't
> seem to be resolved by the end of the week when I'm starting to get
> ready to do the rc1?
>
>              Linus

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Maciej Żenczykowski, Kernel Networking Developer @ Google