From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Florian Weimer' <fweimer@redhat.com>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:46:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9426b9dd7a4489185f6a8828c90aa64@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877doii8n2.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
From: Florian Weimer
> Sent: 12 January 2021 13:32
>
> * Lukas Wunner:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:02:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> I appreciate Arnd pointing out "--std=gnu11", though. What are the
> >> actual relevant language improvements?
> >>
> >> Variable declarations in for-loops is the only one I can think of. I
> >> think that would clean up some code (and some macros), but might not
> >> be compelling on its own.
> >
> > Anonymous structs/unions. I used to have a use case for that in
> > struct efi_dev_path in include/linux/efi.h, but Ard Biesheuvel
> > refactored it in a gnu89-compatible way for v5.7 with db8952e7094f.
>
> Aren't those a GNU extension supported since GCC 3.0?
They are certainly pretty old.
The 15 year old gcc we use for release builds (so binaries work
on old distributions) supports them.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-05 15:47 Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-05 18:27 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-05 19:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-06 11:53 ` Mark Rutland
2021-01-06 12:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-06 13:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-06 17:20 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-06 17:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-06 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-06 22:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-06 22:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-07 11:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-07 12:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-07 13:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-07 13:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-07 16:27 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-01-07 17:00 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-07 21:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-07 22:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-07 22:41 ` Eric Biggers
2021-01-08 8:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-07 22:27 ` Eric Biggers
2021-01-07 23:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-08 8:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-08 9:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-08 10:31 ` Pavel Machek
2021-01-07 21:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-08 9:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-08 9:26 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-08 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-08 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-08 21:20 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-08 20:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-12 13:20 ` Lukas Wunner
2021-01-12 13:31 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-12 13:46 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-01-12 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-14 13:13 ` Lukas Wunner
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