Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:17:25 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: problems with splice from /proc (was Linux 5.10-rc1) |
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 09:14:20AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:07:45AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > > Luckily /proc/cpuinfo seems to use the seq_file interface, so this > series would work for that. > > What's the odds of this series getting into 5.10-final? I'll go run it > through the Android build system right now to see if it fixes the issue > or not...
Ok, I couldn't get a clean merge of that old branch on top of your 5.10-rc1 tree, so I can't give it a run-through. If you have an updated series you want me to test, I'll be glad to do so.
thanks,
greg k-h
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