From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C77F3EDA68D for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2026 16:05:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=8ZtP2eiqo9Oq7WEnEjSsfSf6tBntt8UGm+9MQ8eyCOg=; b=Ij2rr30H9ACA3egNpxkNHKlqz7 M1TkSYoIBwsQ2lIh/Qe5khQVz8tb62nlr1mOet1GENMao4z83dsiSZYUCPiT5S0cXZRpzML1P0vpf ZCUBqSHJ0zyAtsdn56tEiWa6Q8dBdZfLFcqv6TFeasycX+pbOoGDD/vE8cUIrSKVIs94rLSqwPpen mA9uXzVQPA3cvub23IMXB2VV0kTxMSOipQcTVuJVSIoSLQD5CwN5NJKVHRaxo8nsJnr/eZXdqd76D uXEx5innjeNr9cV8OKzZyCfsKktdtZz4x19iiUzpNCKYSL2d0MkHkcAk8DLQo+lGgHtY80DGKBSP0 zAJOoPBg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vxSFt-0000000FW2K-0bnG; Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:05:53 +0000 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vxSFp-0000000FW1R-3smI; Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:05:51 +0000 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id BF4F068BEB; Tue, 3 Mar 2026 17:05:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 17:05:46 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Eric Biggers , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Richard Henderson , Matt Turner , Magnus Lindholm , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Huacai Chen , WANG Xuerui , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Christian Borntraeger , Sven Schnelle , "David S. Miller" , Andreas Larsson , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Herbert Xu , Dan Williams , Chris Mason , David Sterba , Arnd Bergmann , Song Liu , Yu Kuai , Li Nan , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/25] x86: move the XOR code to lib/raid/ Message-ID: <20260303160546.GF7021@lst.de> References: <20260226151106.144735-1-hch@lst.de> <20260226151106.144735-19-hch@lst.de> <20260227143016.GH1282955@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20260227235529.GA31321@quark> <20260228103117.GK1282955@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260228103117.GK1282955@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260303_080550_114558_DED1290C X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 15.35 ) X-BeenThere: linux-um@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+linux-um=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Hmm, I suppose. Its just weird that we now have to look in both > arch/$foo and lib/*/$foo/ to find all arch code. We've had instance of that for a long time, e.g. lib/raid6/ > And I don't suppose symlinks would make it better? Ugg, just purely from the organizaton perspective it would make things a lot worse. I'm also not sure how well git copes with symlinks.