linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

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Message-Id: <c7d7a2b6-d635-49d7-817b-51b30fd97f13@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:47:34 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Guenter Roeck" <linux@...ck-us.net>,
 "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
 "Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
 "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org>,
 "Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>,
 "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, at 01:47, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 14:35, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect we can fix the alpha issue with the trivial
>> change below (haven't tested yet), but the way we are
>> inconsistent about these will likely keep biting us
>> unless we come up with a better way to handle them
>> across architectures.
>
> Well, looking around, the other functions (ie things like
> iowrite64be_lo_hi() etc) do end up being handled by lib/iomap.c, and
> parisc does seem to implement its own versions.
>
> So this may in fact be the only such case.
>
> Knock wood.
>
> Your suggested patch looks ObviouslyCorrect(tm) to me. I assume I'll
> get it through the normal channels after testing?

Yes, I've sent it with a proper description to the alpha
maintainers for feedback now and queued it up in the
asm-generic tree:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240730152744.2813600-1-arnd@kernel.org/T/#u

I also sent a fix for the uretprobe syscall number mess, will
send both once we have agreed on how to do that.

      Arnd