On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:04:23AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 05:07:20PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 12:08:56PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > > > These patches backport KPTI to v4.9.y (based on v4.9.92), providing protection > > > against meltdown on arm64 platforms. > > > > > > I picked up Alex Shi's backport for review and testing, and as I found a couple > > > of issues to fix up, I'm sending this with my Signed-off-by in the chain, with > > > those fixups applied and noted. > > > > > > To the best of my understanding the code is correct, in the context of the > > > v4.9.y kernel, and I've tested the seires on arm64 hardware available to me. > > > i.e. if this didn't have my Signed-off-by it would have my Reviewed-by and > > > Tested-by tags. > > > > > > Are you happy to pick these up for v4.9.93? > > > > Thank you for doing this work, it's much appreciated. I'd like to get > > some "tested-by" from some people with this hardware (like Linaro or > > others that I have pointed this patch series to), before I queue it up. > > I can give it a spin if Mark points me at a branch to use. I've pushed that to: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git stable/4.9.y/meltdown ... that has my Signed-off-by fixed up on patch 9, but is otherwise identical to this posting. Thanks, Mark.