Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jul 31 2024 - 09:24:40 EST


On 7/30/24 5:54 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You also seemed to say that it only happened with some CPU selections.
> Maybe there's something wrong with the ALTERNATIVE() cleanups - I'm
> looking at that new "nested alternatives macros" thing, and the odd
> games we play with the origin and replacement lengths etc.
>
> That all looks entirely crazy. That file was hard to read before, now
> it's just incomprehensible to me.

As I reported earlier, I already tried with the alternative cleanups
reverted, and it made zero difference - it still goes boom in very much
the same way.

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Jens Axboe