From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f72.google.com (mail-wm0-f72.google.com [74.125.82.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F299280298 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 04:55:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f72.google.com with SMTP id v14so3850716wmd.3 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 01:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from theia.8bytes.org (8bytes.org. [2a01:238:4383:600:38bc:a715:4b6d:a889]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g7si513034edj.376.2018.01.17.01.55.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 01:55:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:55:07 +0100 From: Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32 Message-ID: <20180117095507.GM28161@8bytes.org> References: <1516120619-1159-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , Andy Lutomirski , Dave Hansen , Josh Poimboeuf , Juergen Gross , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Kosina , Boris Ostrovsky , Brian Gerst , David Laight , Denys Vlasenko , Eduardo Valentin , Greg KH , Will Deacon , aliguori@amazon.com, daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at, hughd@google.com, keescook@google.com, Andrea Arcangeli , Waiman Long , jroedel@suse.de Hi Thomas, thanks for your review, I'll work in your suggestions for the next post. On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:20:40PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > 16 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) > > Impressively small and well done ! Thanks :) > Can you please make that patch set against > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-pti-for-linus > > so we immediately have it backportable for 4.14 stable? It's only a trivial > conflict in pgtable.h, but we'd like to make the life of stable as simple > as possible. They have enough headache with the pre 4.14 trees. Sure, will do. > We can pick some of the simple patches which make defines and inlines > available out of the pile right away and apply them to x86/pti to shrink > the amount of stuff you have to worry about. This should be patches 4, 5, 7, 11, and I think 13 is also simple enough. Feel free to take them, but I can also carry them forward if needed. Thanks, Joerg -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org