Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: PAGE_KERNEL_* fallbacks

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On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:44:45PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> While dusting out the firmware loader closet I spotted a PAGE_KERNEL_*
> fallback hack. This hurts my eyes, and it should also be blinding
> others. Turns out we have other PAGE_KERNEL_* fallback hacks in
> other places.
> 
> This moves them to asm-generic, and keeps track of architectures which
> need some love or review. At least 0-day was happy with the changes.
> 
> Matthew Wilcox did put together a PAGE_KERNEL_RO patch for ia64, that
> needs review and testing, and if it goes well it should be merged.
> 
> Luis R. Rodriguez (2):
>   mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures
>   mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures
> 
>  drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c |  5 ----
>  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h           | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/nommu.c                              |  4 ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c                            |  4 ---
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

No list of changes that happened from v1?  :(




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