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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:35:22 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:30:48AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Can we just unmap these things until someone tries to do an EFI call,
> and then unmap them again after the call returns?  We already switch
> pgds for EFI IIRC.

hpa did mention an EFI-aware page fault handler at the time. I guess we
could do that too...

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    Boris.

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