From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
To: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
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Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>,
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David Laight <[email protected]>,
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Subject: Re: Buggy commit tracked to: "Re: [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c"
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:39:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 06:13:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 06:51:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > From: David Laight <[email protected]>
> >
> > This lets the compiler inline it into import_iovec() generating
> > much better code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Laight <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > fs/read_write.c | 179 ------------------------------------------------
> > lib/iov_iter.c | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-)
>
> Strangely, this commit causes a regression in Linus's tree right now.
>
> I can't really figure out what the regression is, only that this commit
> triggers a "large Android system binary" from working properly. There's
> no kernel log messages anywhere, and I don't have any way to strace the
> thing in the testing framework, so any hints that people can provide
> would be most appreciated.
It's a pure move - modulo changed line breaks in the argument lists
the functions involved are identical before and after that (just checked
that directly, by checking out the trees before and after, extracting two
functions in question from fs/read_write.c and lib/iov_iter.c (before and
after, resp.) and checking the diff between those.
How certain is your bisection?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-25 4:51 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well v4 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 1/9] compat.h: fix a spelling error in <linux/compat.h> Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-21 16:13 ` Buggy commit tracked to: "Re: [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c" Greg KH
2020-10-21 20:59 ` David Laight
2020-10-21 23:39 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-10-22 8:26 ` Greg KH
2020-10-22 8:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 8:40 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 8:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 9:01 ` Greg KH
2020-10-22 9:06 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 9:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 9:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 9:32 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 9:36 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 10:48 ` Greg KH
2020-10-22 12:18 ` Greg KH
2020-10-22 12:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 12:57 ` Greg KH
2020-10-22 13:50 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <CAK8P3a1B7OVdyzW0-97JwzZiwp0D0fnSfyete16QTvPp_1m07A@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-22 14:40 ` Greg KH
2020-10-22 16:15 ` David Laight
2020-10-23 12:46 ` David Laight
2020-10-23 13:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-23 14:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-23 14:39 ` David Laight
2020-10-23 14:47 ` 'Greg KH'
2020-10-23 16:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-11-02 9:06 ` David Laight
2020-11-02 13:52 ` 'Greg KH'
2020-11-02 18:23 ` David Laight
2020-10-23 17:58 ` Al Viro
2020-10-23 18:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-10-23 21:28 ` David Laight
2020-10-24 17:29 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-10-24 21:12 ` David Laight
[not found] ` <CAK8P3a1n+b8hOMhNQSDzgic03dyXbmpccfTJ3C1bGKvzsgMXbg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-23 13:28 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-22 16:35 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 16:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-22 16:50 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 17:00 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-22 20:59 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-22 21:28 ` Al Viro
2020-10-22 18:19 ` Al Viro
2020-10-22 17:54 ` Nick Desaulniers
[not found] ` <CAK8P3a3LjG+ZvmQrkb9zpgov8xBkQQWrkHBPgjfYSqBKGrwT4w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-22 19:04 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-22 19:24 ` Al Viro
2020-10-22 19:27 ` Al Viro
2020-10-22 20:06 ` Al Viro
2020-10-22 20:09 ` Al Viro
2020-10-22 20:11 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-22 22:07 ` David Laight
2020-10-23 13:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-22 22:04 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 9:28 ` David Laight
2020-10-22 9:02 ` David Laight
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 3/9] iov_iter: refactor rw_copy_check_uvector and import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 4/9] iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 5/9] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 6/9] fs: remove the compat readv/writev syscalls Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 7/9] fs: remove compat_sys_vmsplice Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: remove compat_process_vm_{readv,writev} Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 9/9] security/keys: remove compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 15:23 ` let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well v4 Al Viro
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