Re: [GIT PULL] Networking for v6.8-rc7

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 16:09:09 EST


On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 12:39, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A few hours late, the commit on top fixes an odd "rcu_dereference()
> needs to know full type" build issue I can't repro..

Ugfh. That change literally makes a single load instruction be a
function call. Pretty sad, particularly with all the crazy CPU
mitigations causing that to be even more expensive than it is already.

I really don't see how that error can happen, it sounds very odd.

Oh well.

Linus