From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@cisco.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
James McMechan <james.w.mcmechan@gmail.com>,
initramfs@vger.kernel.org, Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
xe-linux-external@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Documentation: add newcx initramfs format description
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:02:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a06d66eEwxGtezGhfqxYLg9hPiTm5aXRzC=rMwoWQ=dpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151691200536.5378.11544479301138437367@takondra-t460s>
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@cisco.com> wrote:
> Quoting Arnd Bergmann (2018-01-25 01:29:12)
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:27 AM, Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> We can match statx(2) by having 64 bits for seconds plus 32 bits for
> nanoseconds.
Ok.
> For initramfs nanoseconds field can be ignored during
> unpacking.
That sounds like a pointless microoptimization. Most likely we won't ever
need the nanoseconds in the initramfs, but it's trivial to just copy them
into the right field, and not adding that one source line would probably
involve adding a one-line source comment to explain the omission ;-)
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-25 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-25 3:27 [PATCH v2 00/15] extend initramfs archive format to support xattrs Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] Documentation: add newcx initramfs format description Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 9:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-01-25 20:26 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 21:02 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-01-25 22:13 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-26 2:39 ` Rob Landley
2018-01-26 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-01-26 10:31 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2018-01-26 15:51 ` Victor Kamensky
2018-01-26 18:15 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2018-01-26 2:40 ` Rob Landley
2018-01-26 21:02 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] initramfs: replace states with function pointers Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] initramfs: store file name in name_buf Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] initramfs: remove unnecessary symlinks processing shortcut Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] initramfs: move files creation into separate state Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] initramfs: separate reading cpio method from header Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] initramfs: split header layout information from parsing function Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] initramfs: add newcx format Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] initramfs: set extended attributes Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] gen_init_cpio: move header formatting into function Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] gen_init_cpio: add newcx format Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-26 2:40 ` Rob Landley
2018-01-26 20:37 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] gen_init_cpio: set extended attributes for " Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] gen_initramfs_list.sh: add -x option to enable " Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] selinux: allow setxattr on rootfs so initramfs code can set them Taras Kondratiuk
2018-01-25 3:27 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] selinux: delay sid population for rootfs till init is complete Taras Kondratiuk
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