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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:21:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/39] x86/mm/pti: Clone entry-text again in pti_finalize()
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>
> The mapping for entry-text might have changed in the kernel
> after it was cloned to the user page-table. Clone again
> to update the user page-table to bring the mapping in sync
> with the kernel again.

Can't we just defer pti_init() until after mark_readonly()?  What am I missing?