[10:06] <f_g> is there an ETA for the kpti backports for 4.13?
[10:27] <TJ-> 4.15 isn't finished yet! I'd expect backports once 4.15 is released
[10:58] <f_g> TJ-: 4.14.11 already got them (or most of them?) ;) I figured this means that 4.4 and 4.9 will follow soonish (after all, having an affected unreleased kernel is less severe than having an affected released one)
[11:04] <f_g> AFAICT, 4.15 is expected in ~2.5 weeks (rc7 2018-01-07, rc8 2018-01-14, release 2018-01-21) - that would mean an (expected) 4.13 backport in Artful in 3+ weeks?
[11:10] <TJ-> Looks like Bionic is about to get 4.14.10,  and will probably get 4.14.11 once the build tests are done
[11:14] <FrostEyes_P1> Hi. Looking at https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ - and expecting the embargo to be removed soon. Do you know if there is any timeline for 16.04?
[11:15] <FrostEyes_P1> TJ-: answered in #ubuntu
[15:36] <dsd> hey, just curious if there are any current/planned efforts to backport the KPTI patches to ubuntu 4.13 kernels?
[16:03] <Kon-> dsd, from earlier: "4.15 is expected in ~2.5 weeks (rc7 2018-01-07, rc8 2018-01-14, release 2018-01-21) - that would mean an (expected) 4.13 backport in Artful in 3+ weeks?"
[16:08] <dsd> question of the day - i see the logs. thanks
[20:51] <chiluk> apw where has cking gone?  Do you know of any good filesystem exercisers?  I'm trying to avoid writing my own... I basically need something to create a ton of files, and delete them randomly to cause xfs free list fragmentation.
[20:51] <chiluk> Really anything that causes filesystem fragmentation would be interesting.
[20:53] <TJ-> chiluk: you mean like this? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/tree/
[20:55] <chiluk> Yeah I'm aware of xfstests, but I don't think it has a stress mode like I'm needing.
[20:56] <chiluk> and considering I'm running this against xfs ... I assume the tests have already been run and pass.
[20:57] <TJ-> ahhh
[20:58] <apw> chiluk: I am sure stressng has something
[20:58] <apw> .
[20:59] <chiluk> Basically I was hoping that cking had something in stressng
[20:59] <chiluk> yeah I've already checked the stressng in X...
[20:59] <TJ-> linux test project has some FS stress tools, have you looked at that?
[20:59] <chiluk> I was hoping to give him some ideas for stressing the freeblock logic.
[20:59] <chiluk> I have not >.. I'll check that out TJ... thanks.