From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problems with splice from /proc (was Linux 5.10-rc1)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:07:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201027080745.GA31045@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201027075541.GA24429@kroah.com>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:55:41AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> This is just a test, part of the bionic test suite to verify that bionic
> is working properly, and is run on new kernels as a verification that
> nothing functional broke in the kernel update.
>
> I don't know about "real applications" yet.
>
> Do you have to implement this on a per-proc-file-basis, or will it work
> for the whole filesystem?
>
> And are the patches public anywhere that I could test them out?
This all branch has the last posted version:
http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/set_fs-rw.2
with tthe proc:, sysctl: and seq_file: patches related to it. It did
switch over all seq_file instances, but non-seq_file instances and write
operations will need manual per-instance work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-27 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-25 22:40 Linux 5.10-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2020-10-25 23:43 ` linux-next: stats Stephen Rothwell
2020-10-27 6:48 ` problems with splice from /proc (was Linux 5.10-rc1) Greg KH
2020-10-27 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27 7:55 ` Greg KH
2020-10-27 8:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-10-27 8:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-27 8:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27 9:17 ` Greg KH
2020-10-27 16:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27 17:43 ` Greg KH
2020-10-28 16:00 ` Greg KH
2020-10-28 18:33 ` Greg KH
2020-10-28 18:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-28 18:35 ` [PATCH] proc "single files": switch to ->read_iter Greg Kroah-Hartman
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