From: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/24] exec: Simplify unshare_files
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:44:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed83033f-80af-5be0-ecbe-f2bf5c2075e9@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3z1tZSSSyK=tZOkUTqXvewJgd6ntHMysY0gGQ7hPWwfw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/24/20 12:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:58 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:55 AM Eric W. Biederman
>> <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If cell happens to be dead we can remove a fair amount of generic kernel
>>> code that only exists to support cell.
>>
>> Even if some people might still use cell (which sounds unlikely), I
>> think we can remove the spu core dumping code.
>
> The Cell blade hardware (arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/) that I'm listed
> as a maintainer for is very much dead, but there is apparently still some
> activity on the Playstation 3 that Geoff Levand maintains.
>
> Eric correctly points out that the PS3 firmware no longer boots
> Linux (OtherOS), but AFAIK there are both users with old firmware
> and those that use a firmware exploit to run homebrew code including
> Linux.
>
> I would assume they still use the SPU and might also use the core
> dump code in particular. Let's see what Geoff thinks.
There are still PS3-Linux users out there. They use 'Homebrew' firmware
released through 'Hacker' forums that allow them to run Linux on
non-supported systems. They are generally hobbies who don't post to
Linux kernel mailing lists. I get direct inquiries regularly asking
about how to update to a recent kernel. One of the things that attract
them to the PS3 is the Cell processor and either using or programming
the SPUs.
It is difficult to judge how much use the SPU core dump support gets,
but if it is not a cause of major problems I feel we should consider
keeping it.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-24 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87r1on1v62.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] exec: Move unshare_files to fix posix file locking during exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-07 22:22 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <87zh2pusdw.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-12-07 23:35 ` Al Viro
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] exec: Simplify unshare_files Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-23 17:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-11-23 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <87im9vx08i.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
[not found] ` <87pn42r0n7.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-11-24 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-24 20:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-24 23:44 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2020-11-25 1:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-27 20:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-30 21:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-01 9:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-11-25 21:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] coredump: Document coredump code exclusively used by cell spufs Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-02 15:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-02 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-12-07 22:32 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] exec: Simplify unshare_files Al Viro
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] exec: Remove reset_files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] kcmp: In kcmp_epoll_target use fget_task Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] bpf: In bpf_task_fd_query " Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] proc/fd: In proc_fd_link " Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 07/24] file: Rename __fcheck_files to files_lookup_fd_raw Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] file: Factor files_lookup_fd_locked out of fcheck_files Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] file: Replace fcheck_files with files_lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-07 22:46 ` Al Viro
2020-12-07 22:49 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 16:54 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] file: Rename fcheck lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] file: Implement task_lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-21 18:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
[not found] ` <87blfp1r8b.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-11-22 13:52 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] proc/fd: In tid_fd_mode use task_lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] kcmp: In get_file_raw_ptr " Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-23 21:05 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] file: Implement task_lookup_next_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] proc/fd: In proc_readfd_common use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-07 23:29 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <877dprvs8e.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-12-09 4:07 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <877dprtxly.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-12-09 14:23 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 18:04 ` [PATCH] files: rcu free files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 19:50 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 21:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-10 6:13 ` Al Viro
2020-12-10 19:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-10 21:36 ` Al Viro
2020-12-10 22:30 ` Christian Brauner
2020-12-10 22:54 ` Al Viro
2020-12-10 23:10 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 21:42 ` [PATCH -1/24] exec: Don't open code get_close_on_exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 22:04 ` [PATCH] files: rcu free files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 19:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 22:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 22:58 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 23:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 23:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 23:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-10 0:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-10 0:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] bpf/task_iter: In task_file_seq_get_next use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-23 17:06 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] proc/fd: In fdinfo seq_show don't use get_files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] file: Merge __fd_install into fd_install Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] file: In f_dupfd read RLIMIT_NOFILE once Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] file: Merge __alloc_fd into alloc_fd Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] file: Rename __close_fd to close_fd and remove the files parameter Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] file: Replace ksys_close with close_fd Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] file: Rename __close_fd_get_file close_fd_get_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] file: Remove get_files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-21 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 00/24] exec: Move unshare_files and guarantee files_struct.count is correct Linus Torvalds
2020-11-28 5:12 ` Al Viro
2020-12-07 23:56 ` Al Viro
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