Re: [PATCH v4.9.y 00/27] arm64 meltdown patches

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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.



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