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Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage Message-ID: <20200219190640.GA1926073@rani.riverdale.lan> References: <20200109150218.16544-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu> <20200205162921.GA318609@rani.riverdale.lan> <20200218180353.GA930230@rani.riverdale.lan> <20200219120938.GB30966@zn.tnic> <20200219175717.GA1892094@rani.riverdale.lan> <20200219182230.GG30966@zn.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200219182230.GG30966@zn.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 07:22:30PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > There isn't any particular urgency (at least until fg-kaslr patches try > > Ok, I was just making sure you're not pinging because there's something > more urgent here. See below. > > > to make it 64MiB bigger), but it's unclear how long to wait before > > sending a reminder -- Documentation/process suggests that comments > > should be received in a week or so, pinging after 4 and 6 weeks seemed > > reasonable. If x86 has a longer queue, might be worth documenting that > > somewhere? > > We try to track all stuff but x86 is super crazy most of the time, > especially currently, so stuff gets prioritized based on urgency and we > also try to round-robin through all submitters so that stuff doesn't get > left out. > > Thus the one-week thing will never work with x86. Once a month ping > maybe. > > In your case, since it is an improvement which is good to have but not > absolutely a must and not a bugfix, it is understandable that it would > get pushed back in priority. > > But stuff usually won't be forgotten and we'll get to it eventually - it > is just that we're mega swamped all the time. :-\ > Ok, thanks.