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…thub.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e388... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16 [3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-4236... [4] https://github.com/torvalds/pesconvert/issues/4 [5]…

comment by tzs · 2018-09-22 · in A Programming Language Underdog

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Can Microsoft plant backdoor on Linux source in GitHub secretly?

story by CoderCV · 2018-09-19 · 6 comments

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Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it

story by zhte415 · 2018-09-18 · 0 comments

…and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of...level of experience" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/7876320f88802b22d4e2d... The code doesn't say they have to work with people of low levels of…

comment by jesstaa · 2018-09-18 · in Linux adds a code of conduct for programmers

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Linux Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it

story by Ronsenshi · 2018-09-17 · 0 comments

For those interested, here is the commit where the code of conduct was included: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8a104f8b5867c682d99... "code of conflict" was rewritten to "code of conduct".

comment by malikolivier · 2018-09-17 · in Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

…my patch interacted badly with a pre-existing mistake in the thp code and caused this. Oops. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/19be0eaff [2] https://medium.com/bindecy/huge-dirty-cow-cve-2017-1000405-1...

comment by KenoFischer · 2018-09-17 · in Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

I believe some AMD CPUs already support it, and there's some mention of it in Linux Kernel docs ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... ), but I'm not sure if it's actually used in practice or not.

comment by detaro · 2018-09-13 · in Cold Boot Attacks

> AMD promised open drivers. We're still waiting. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr... There you go.

comment by majewsky · 2018-09-13 · in Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build

…many more have references to master/slave. [1] https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185 [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=master+slave&unsc... [3] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/search?q=master+slave&un...

comment by kgraves · 2018-09-10 · in The use of "blacklist" is offensive

…that's missing from "Part1" is the display system. But there is a driver in mainline Linux for that https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

comment by floatboth · 2018-08-18 · in Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops

…never included by the source file. That is totally opposite to my experience. Example from Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/smpboot... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/smpboot...

comment by dingo_bat · 2018-07-26 · in Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5

…codes" are probably just #define macros somewhere in the kernel repo, in my case it was in [1] [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/platfo...

comment by old-gregg · 2018-07-24 · in Apple releases software fix for MacBook Pro slowdown

…implementation in Linux returns -EISDIR, but filesystems are free to change it to something else: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/2a56bb596b2c1fb612f99... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?p=1&q=generic_read_...

comment by rzzzt · 2018-07-21 · in In Unix Everything Is a File

I actually started using the GOPATH structure for all my repos after discovering three full checkouts of github.com/torvalds/linux [1] on my drive. [1] I know it's not the official upstream remote, but I find this one the easiest to…

comment by majewsky · 2018-07-15 · in Taking Go modules for a spin

…that has its own internal SRAM as a framebuffer. a good example is the HX8357D (now obsolete sadly) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/video/... technically speaking it's perfectly possible to use an 8mhz 8-bit…

comment by lkcl · 2018-07-12 · in Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt

Correct source of comment is elsewhere in that thread [1] [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613...

comment by Fnoord · 2018-06-22 · in Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

…best places to host a project. It's fast, it's efficient, it works, and it's available to anybody. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

comment by nemanjaboric · 2018-06-22 · in Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

…if a rseq region is set. The added cost to a context switch seems essentially limited to a branch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d7822b1e24f2df5df98... The other benchmarks that were posted in the various threads leading to this…

comment by jgalar · 2018-06-21 · in Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

…speedup on the LTTng benchmark. To me as a non-kernel guy this doesn't sound very impressive.. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d7822b1e24f2df5df98...

comment by Grollicus · 2018-06-21 · in Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

What is an example of the "per-cpu data" they're talking about here[0]? [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d82991a8688ad128b46db...

comment by mereel · 2018-06-21 · in Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

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Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

story by tg180 · 2018-06-21 · 62 comments

The accept call on Linux: - invokes the accept() function of the socket family: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/be779f03d563981c65cc7... - which invokes the accept() function of the protocol: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/be…

comment by _wmd · 2018-06-18 · in Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower

…the kernel interfaces are not stable, by choice. Here is the explanation from the kernel docs: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

comment by filmor · 2018-06-12 · in Linux is Obsolete (1992)

…distributed/diverse development community than decentralised tools and isolationist community. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

comment by snowwolf · 2018-06-06 · in The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub

…very interested in what will happen with these accounts (t name a few) the next few weeks / months: https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/mozilla https://github.com/google

comment by EastSmith · 2018-06-03 · in Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

…they were used to use assembly jump instructions. But we don't abuse goto statments anymore. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/socket.c#L...

comment by kbumsik · 2018-05-11 · in The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]

…as part of KVM, accessed through the /dev/kvm device with ioctl's. You can see part of it here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/inclu...

comment by tmzt · 2018-04-12 · in Fuchsia is not Linux

…X11 session and have it show up: it's a fake buffer that only shows up when KMS isn't in use. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

comment by Jasper_ · 2018-04-04 · in Writing to the Framebuffer

…any process to spy on other processes. ptrace_scope was apparently introduced in 2011-2012, see https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/a2e5790d841658485d... For more information: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Yama.txt…

comment by s_gourichon · 2018-03-19 · in Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years

…None for the Linux kernel, though, but it does have >20,000 forks on GitHub: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/network/members

comment by mseebach · 2018-02-26 · in Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug

GitHub mirror: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed875ea1fcc6c34ea23...

comment by shakna · 2018-02-14 · in Farewell from Rusty Russell

…to rate limit the acks it sends in this case, but it doesn't seem to have been committed [2] [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/96e0bf4b5193d0d97d1... (although the comment says this is consistent with the RFC, it actually isn't)…

comment by toast0 · 2018-02-02 · in Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol

…And it is relatively recent; it was added as a security measure in June 2007 for Linux 2.6.23 in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed0321895182ffb6ecf... , about 40 years after the invention of NULL.

comment by geofft · 2018-01-22 · in Redox OS Crash Challenge

You don't understand. This is a list of people who have ownership over some part of Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/MAINTAINERS Linus might have the "final say" but all of the work and knowledge is encapsulated in…

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-01-19 · in Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status

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Trolling via PR, or is this just trolling trovalds?

story by icbm504 · 2018-01-09 · 0 comments

…out the links from this comment. [1]: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/947147105684123649 [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f55f0501cbf65ec41cc... [3]: https://tglx.de/~tglx/patches-pti-184.tar.bz2

comment by teraflop · 2018-01-04 · in Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

…is correct (4c48abe91be03d191d0c20cc755877da2cb35622), but it was not in 4.12 as cut by linus. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c48abe91be03d191d0... (click the little '...' to expand tags it's in) or: $ git tag --contains…

comment by TheDong · 2017-12-29 · in Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123

…[k] put_page 1.36% cryptsetup [kernel] [k] blkcipher_walk_done so it's using the code from: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/crypt... I don't know if using AVX would speed it up. openssl is faster (openssl speed -evp…

comment by wolf550e · 2017-12-26 · in FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults

…of not enabling in KConfig[2]. The question is did Ubuntu enable it by default and if so, why? [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/8afda8b26d01ee26a60ef...

comment by cjhanks · 2017-12-20 · in Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models

…interfaces are very stable, with an ABI docs directory breaking out what is and isn't. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e7aa8c2eb11ba69b1b690... If the kernel's user interface just started blocking on open for 4000 milliseconds for…

comment by peterwwillis · 2017-12-19 · in Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains

…spent over 80% of its total running time in pageblock_pfn_to_page (this was on a 4.4 kernel, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.4/mm/compaction.c#... ) and a total of 97% of the total time in hugepage compaction kernel code.…

comment by lorenzhs · 2017-11-28 · in Disable transparent hugepages

…at [1].) One scanout overlay is already in use on all major OS's, to draw the mouse cursor. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e60e1ee60630cafef5e43...

comment by pcwalton · 2017-11-21 · in Desktop compositing latency is real

Source for those interested: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/lib/refcount.c I'm kind of surprised that the authors went with compare-and-exchange for their ref count, rather than get-and-increment. Even if the counter does…

comment by anameaname · 2017-11-16 · in Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety

…browser internals are more like kernel space, which the Linux kernel breaks, all the time [1]. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e7aa8c2eb11ba69b1b690...

comment by pcwalton · 2017-11-15 · in Firefox 57.0 Released

…hardware accelerated in KVM. Searching for CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM, it doesn't appear to cover much. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/xen/

comment by abdulla · 2017-11-07 · in C5 Instances for EC2 Now Available

…unaligned-memory-access.txt useful. Ref:- Linux Kernel Source: UNALIGNED MEMORY ACCESSES Link: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

comment by drake01 · 2017-11-05 · in The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

That's been experimental for a long time - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/9p I guess file systems don't go into staging/?

comment by voltagex_ · 2017-10-31 · in Writing a 9P server from scratch (2016)

Here you go: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/692b48258dda7c302e7... I do understand what you're saying though but I don't think people are going to just search Github for your name on the off-chance that you're on there, I suspect…

comment by Sean1708 · 2017-10-26 · in I have no side code projects to show you

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this code very faster – Files changed ∞

story by anshk · 2017-10-03 · 0 comments