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[S] Four short stories about preempt_counto
Bottomley: Creating
home IPv6 network
Security
[Kernel] Posted Sep 18_
2020 14.49 UTC (Fri) by corbet
[Kemel] Posted Sep 18
2020 14.48 UTC (Fri) by corbet
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The discussion started out as
staightfoward
set from
James Bottomley has
together
detailed recounting
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Thomas Gleixner making
minor change t0 how preemption
of what it took to get IPv6 fully working on his
Unread comments
counting is handled: The resulting discussion quickly spread
network; "One of the
vou 'd think from the above
out t0 cover
number of issues relevant to core-kernel
is that IPv6 always auto
configures and, while it is true
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development in surprisingly few messages; each of those
that if you simply plug your laptop into the ethernet port
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topics merits
quick look;
with how the
preemption
cable modem it will just automatically configure,
counter itself works
Sometimes
simple count turns out t0
most people have
more complex home setup
not be as simple as it seems
involving
router; which needs some special coaxing
before it will work. That means
need to obtain
EuL
(comments: L)
additional features from your ISP using special
DHCPv6 requests
Comments (none posted)
[S] The seqcount latch lock type
Security updates for Friday
[Kernel] Posted Sep 17
2020 14.49 UTC (Thu) by corbet
[Security] Posted Sep 18, 2020 [4.22 UTC (Fri) by jake
The kernel contains
wide variety of
locking primitives; it
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux
can be hard to
on top of all of them_
So even veteran
(chromium and netbeans), Oracle (mysql:8.0 and
kernel developers might be forgiven for being unaware of the
thunderbird) , SUSE (rubygem-rack and samba), and
segcount latch" lock type or its use. While this lock type has
Ubuntu (apng2gif, gnupg2, libemail-address-list-perl,
existed in the kernel
for several years
it is only being
libproxy, pulseaudio, pure-
samba; and xawtv).
formalized with
proper
declaration in 5.10. So this
seems like
time to look at what these locks are and
EullStory (comments:none:
how they work_
EuLStory (comments: 3)
[S] LWNnet Weekly Edition for September 17,
Stable kernels 5.8.10, 5.4.66_
and 4.19.146
2020
[Kemel] Posted Sep 17, 2020 16.05 UTC (Thu) by jake
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