Re: [PATCH 0/8] simplify ep_poll

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 23:45:30 -0500 Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 8:43 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri,  6 Nov 2020 18:16:27 -0500 Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This patch series is a follow up based on the suggestions and feedback by Linus:
> > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wizk=OxUyQPbO8MS41w2Pag1kniUV5WdD5qWL-gq1kjDA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Al Viro has been playing in here as well - see the below, from
> > linux-next.
> >
> > I think I'll leave it to you folks to sort this out, please.
> 
> Thank you Andrew for pointing that out!  Sorry that I didn't notice Al
> Viro's nice clean ups.
> 
> The changes are all orthogonal and apply cleanly except "epoll: pull
> fatal signal checks into ep_send_events()".   The conflict is trivial
> and the following patch should cleanly apply to linux-next/master (I
> didn't move the initialization of `res = 0` after the new branch to
> keep it simple).
> 
> FWIW, I also stress-tested the patch series applied on top of
> linux-next/master for a couple of hours.
> 
> Could you please let me know whether I should send a V2 of the patch
> series for linux-next? Thanks!

That worked, thanks.  I'll include all this in the next drop for
linux-next.