Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fs/resctrl: Avoid extra call to strlen() in schemata_list_add()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 09:17:23AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Boris,
> 
> On 9/17/26 8:54 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 08:42:47AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> >> Dear x86 maintainers,
> >>
> >> Could you please consider both cleanups in this series for inclusion?
> > 
> > I see Sashiko is complaining about two pre-existing issues:
> > 
> > https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260821081128.19242-1-dmantipov%40yandex.ru
> > 
> 
> These same pseudo-locking related issues were reported by Sashiko during a previous
> resctrl submission:
> 
> 	https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260515193944.15114-1-tony.luck%40intel.com
> 
> There was an effort to address these issues, latest attempt can be seen at: 
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1779476724.git.reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> These attempts at fixes just exposed more corner cases related to pseudo-locking, for example:
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/e40a924f-5398-43bd-821a-2ff9873c5a4c@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> All of these issues are related to intricate races that could be triggered by user space stress
> of the pseudo-locking files that is only possible on very specific ten-year old hardware.
> Since such usage is contrary to the pseudo-locking usage model which requires care by default
> I decided to drop that work.

Thanks, we probably should start tracking all those Sashiko complaints which
we're not going to address.

/me notes these links.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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