From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, zohar@us.ibm.com,
david@fromorbit.com, jmorris@namei.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:13:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101026181310.GY19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinywnaMNSABWTBwTmC5ML9BRTGgU0+YCfZJSkCT@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:22:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If you want zero overhead and you think nobody uses it (and that seems
> to be the _only_ logic the people complaining about it keep drumming
> on), then DON'T ENABLE IT, FOR CHRISSAKE!
>
> This thread has been a total waste of everybody's time.
>
> Did I miss any actual _constructive_ criticism of the patches? Is
> there any reason I shouldn't actually apply them? If there is, I've
> lost it in the roar of pointlessness.
FWIW, I'm OK with that. My general opinion about the quality and
usefulness of security/* is a separate story, but if we are stuck
with that shit in the tree, let's at least trim down what can be
trimmed down.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 18:41 [PATCH 01/11] IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:41 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:41 ` [PATCH 02/11] IMA: drop the inode opencount since it isn't needed for operation Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:41 ` [PATCH 03/11] IMA: use unsigned int instead of long for counters Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:41 ` [PATCH 04/11] IMA: convert internal flags from long to char Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:41 ` [PATCH 05/11] IMA: use inode->i_lock to protect read and write counters Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:41 ` [PATCH 06/11] IMA: use i_writecount rather than a private counter Eric Paris
2010-10-25 19:27 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-25 21:52 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-25 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-25 22:29 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-26 13:57 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-26 13:53 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-26 22:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-25 18:41 ` [PATCH 07/11] IMA: move read counter into struct inode Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:42 ` [PATCH 08/11] IMA: only allocate iint when needed Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:42 ` [PATCH 09/11] IMA: drop refcnt from ima_iint_cache since it isn't needed Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:42 ` [PATCH 10/11] IMA: explicit IMA i_flag to remove global lock on inode_delete Eric Paris
2010-10-25 18:42 ` [PATCH 11/11] IMA: fix the ToMToU logic Eric Paris
2010-10-25 19:21 ` [PATCH 01/11] IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache John Stoffel
2010-10-25 19:38 ` J.H.
2010-10-25 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-25 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-25 20:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-25 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-26 14:01 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-26 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-26 15:30 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-26 15:53 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-26 18:13 ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-10-27 13:35 ` James Morris
2010-10-26 14:07 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-26 14:07 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-25 21:34 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-26 13:45 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-25 23:22 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-26 0:12 ` Eric Paris
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