From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_03_06, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7994BC43381 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5E22147A for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:05:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1552064708; bh=wWxR9hRaEHAVMKJhNe3opZ01U3EQ5LfT2qwcS5LBxZA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=pT1jxOOS9sWCXI+aJ3SAwxUUPi1XDYVj4WBdjmd8Svwqa+warvPQxsmfE5JLJ7/Wi d9Z3WU0lJ3S1hxy9P3m6p3RhA4MRqPk/l/48FunSJG2WR9heWbHAD5sFB1DkCZIRKf s0aNG7AoFb2kQb52ExarML018sWAzhZxxcB6JRL8= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726411AbfCHRE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:04:58 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:47638 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726286AbfCHRE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:04:58 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 285E8205F4; Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:04:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1552064697; bh=wWxR9hRaEHAVMKJhNe3opZ01U3EQ5LfT2qwcS5LBxZA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=dsIFXEPsKBgBYHpWOJ+dmybmjRZnIqzuEluYQnl3BgXlmUwXrYzY/h4jMihKH9Wmq RX2xmsyEa+7CBuCXxeSksWzNUUHhSkyuUFfK7BR/0qALmpJZEjU7a/SlHlV6MBpvUh WuzqdgupmDahhSe1icgn1kUT2KwBTjCxPbqvQ+O4= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:02:51 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Joel Fernandes Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , LKML , Andrew Morton , Alexei Starovoitov , atish patra , Daniel Colascione , Dan Williams , Dietmar Eggemann , Guenter Roeck , Jonathan Corbet , Karim Yaghmour , Kees Cook , Android Kernel Team , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org, Manoj Rao , Masahiro Yamada , Masami Hiramatsu , Qais Yousef , Randy Dunlap , Steven Rostedt , Shuah Khan , Yonghong Song Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Message-ID: <20190308140251.GC25768@kroah.com> References: <20190301160856.129678-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> <20190307150343.GB258852@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: linux-trace-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 05:42:32AM -0800, Joel Fernandes wrote: > HI Geert, > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 3:53 AM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > It is just so much easier to use tar + xz at build time, and leave the > > > decompression task to the user. After decompression, the files will live on > > > the disk and the page-cache mechanism will free memory when/if the files fall > > > off the LRUs. > > > > I'm also considering how generic and extensible the solution is. > > What if people need other build artifacts in the future (e.g. signing key to > > load signed modules)? > > That sounds like it could be useful. I don't see any reason off the > top why that would not be possible to add to the list of archived > files in the future. The patch allows populating the list of files > from Kbuild using ikh_file_list variable. Um, no, you don't want the signing key in the kernel itself, as that totally defeats the purpose of the signing key :) greg k-h