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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:35:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180221153527.12e7d12c@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+zRQfxRXoSC5G8EjeSkPkpeMxfedJbHEgFyYcyXWmW9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:29:06 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> >> I wonder if this might be more readable by splitting the kernel-doc
> >> changes from the bitmap changes? I.e. fix all the kernel-doc in one
> >> patch, and in the following, make the bitmap changes. Maybe it's such
> >> a small part that it doesn't matter, though?  
> >
> > I had the same thought, but then I would have made most of the kerneldoc
> > changes to something that would be altered by the following patch,
> > because it would have made little sense to fix only those parts that
> > would have survived.
> >
> > If it is really a problem to keep them together, I could put these
> > changes in a following patch. Would that be ok?  
> 
> Hmmm... I think keeping it as-is would be better than a trailing
> docs-only patch. Maybe Jon has an opinion?

I would be inclined to agree.  Putting docs changes with the associated
code changes helps to document the patch itself, among other things.  I
wouldn't split them up.

jon

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-21 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-12 16:52 [RFC PATCH v16 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:52 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 23:52   ` Kees Cook
2018-02-20 17:07     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-21 22:29       ` Kees Cook
2018-02-21 22:35         ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2018-02-12 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/6] genalloc: selftest Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 23:50   ` Kees Cook
2018-02-20 16:59     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-21 22:28       ` Kees Cook
2018-02-22  9:14         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-22 18:28           ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/6] Protectable Memory Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] Pmalloc: self-test Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 23:43   ` Kees Cook
2018-02-20 16:40     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-21 22:24       ` Kees Cook
2018-02-22  9:01         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 23:32 ` [RFC PATCH v16 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Kees Cook
2018-02-20  1:21   ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-20 18:03     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-20 21:36       ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-20 23:56         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-21  1:36           ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-21  9:56             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-21 21:36               ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-22  8:58                 ` Igor Stoppa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-02-11  3:19 [RFC PATCH v15 " Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 12:24   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-12 11:17     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 11:36       ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-13  0:43   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-04 16:47 [RFC PATCH v14 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 22:34   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-05  3:45     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-09 14:28       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-09 16:18     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-09 17:15       ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-03 19:42 [RFC PATCH v13 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-03 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-01-30 15:14 [RFC PATCH v12 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-01-30 15:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-01-24 17:56 [RFC PATCH v11 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-01-24 17:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa

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