linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ring-buffer: Updates for v6.15

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Message-ID: <20250327232943.254c50a7@batman.local.home>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:29:43 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Feng Yang <yangfeng@...inos.cn>, Jiapeng Chong
 <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ring-buffer: Updates for v6.15

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:19:09 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I think that would have been *enormously* better, yes, if only because
> it clearly abstracts things out, and doesn't do the whole "oh, let's
> ask what the VM thinks this page is" which really drove me up the
> wall.

Thanks for verifying. I'll update the code to do this, and get it ready
for 6.16, and hopefully there will be nothing in there that you will
think is "hackery".

-- Steve