From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:45:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUJTKqqWzFi594_y_F1HdONr3+FOSTzg-n0ogoroFUqpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180510014447.15989-3-mcgrof@kernel.org>
Hi Luis,
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> Some architectures just don't have PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC. The mm/nommu.c
> and mm/vmalloc.c code have been using PAGE_KERNEL as a fallback for years.
> Move this fallback to asm-generic.
>
> Architectures which do not define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC yet:
>
> o alpha
> o mips
> o openrisc
> o sparc64
The above list seems to be far from complete?
> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-10 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-10 1:44 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: PAGE_KERNEL_* fallbacks Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10 1:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10 1:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC " Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10 7:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2018-05-10 15:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10 17:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10 6:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: PAGE_KERNEL_* fallbacks Greg KH
2018-05-10 17:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-14 14:23 ` Greg KH
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