linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

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Message-ID: <b909349e-5ade-4e1b-b434-c2a669699059@kernel.dk>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 07:24:27 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

On 7/30/24 5:54 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You also seemed to say that it only happened with some CPU selections.
> Maybe there's something wrong with the ALTERNATIVE() cleanups - I'm
> looking at that new "nested alternatives macros" thing, and the odd
> games we play with the origin and replacement lengths etc.
> 
> That all looks entirely crazy. That file was hard to read before, now
> it's just incomprehensible to me.

As I reported earlier, I already tried with the alternative cleanups
reverted, and it made zero difference - it still goes boom in very much
the same way.

-- 
Jens Axboe