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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/27] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:34:12 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:26:20PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> VM_SHSTK indicates a shadow stack memory area.
> 
> A shadow stack PTE must be read-only and dirty.  For non shadow
> stack, we use a spare bit of the 64-bit PTE for dirty.  The PTE
> changes are in the next patch.

This doesn't make any sense.. the $subject and the patch seem completely
unrelated to this Changelog.