From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rseq tree with Linus' tree Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1986203057.15906.1510763941256.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> References: <20171115153536.7fab87b7@canb.auug.org.au> <20171116014826.5228aa7c@canb.auug.org.au> <1489656964.15813.1510758032885.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> <952535108.15867.1510760492893.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> <1154718745.15893.1510762332422.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.efficios.com ([167.114.142.141]:41378 "EHLO mail.efficios.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932320AbdKOQiT (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:38:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux-Next Mailing List , linux-kernel , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra ----- On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > >> ----- On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> >> ----- On Nov 15, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de wrote: >> >> > Can we please handle this as any other feature which is not ready before >> >> > the merge window and postpone the rseq stuff for 4.16? >> >> >> >> Linus showed interest in merging the rseq tree when we discussed at the >> >> Kernel Summit. The tree has not changed much since then. I only integrated >> >> membarrier patches that were implemented around the time of the 4.14 merge >> >> window, which I queued for the 4.15 (current) window. >> > >> > Linus showed interest for a lot of things in the past. That does not mean >> > it makes things magically complete and ready. >> > >> > As Michael pointed out there is no man page, not even a draft for it >> > available. See: Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst >> >> The rseq commit has a manpage associated for seq. The cpu_opv does not have it >> yet, nor the new membarrier commands. I plan to write those quickly after the >> tree reaches master. > > And that's a special rule for you, right? > > Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst is for everybody else who > implements a new syscall. I'll prepare the manpage before the PR. Thanks, Mathieu > > Thanks, > > tglx -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com