On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The set_memory_* APIs came out of a desire to have a better way to > change memory attributes. Many of these attributes were linked to cache > functionality so the prototypes were put in cacheflush.h. These days, > the APIs have grown and have a much wider use than just cache APIs. To > support this growth, split off set_memory_* and friends into a separate > header file to avoid growing cacheflush.h for APIs that have nothing to > do with caches. > > Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > This came out of a comment Russell made while reviewing RODATA test cases > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-January/480855.html > While the final result of that series was the rodata code was refactored into > its own header file, the set_memory_* APIs are still out of place. Yeah, this is a nice clean up to start on. > This is a simple attempt at moving all the API stubs to their own file. > Another idea I had was throwing set_memory_{x,nx,ro,rw} in an asm-generic > file since those are commonly used for module setting across all arches. It seems like asm-generic would be cleaner, yes? Only a few archs have anything "special" happening in the resulting header files. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
