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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Support for set_memory_* outside of module space
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
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On 11/10/2015 05:57 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is v2 of the series to allow set_memory_* to work on kernel memory
> for security and other use cases. Should have addressed most comments
> although another look might be necessary for the contiguous bit.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>
> Laura Abbott (2):
>    arm64: Get existing page protections in split_pmd
>    arm64: Allow changing of attributes outside of modules
>
>   arch/arm64/Kconfig       |  12 ++++
>   arch/arm64/mm/mm.h       |   3 +
>   arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c      |  12 ++--
>   arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 174 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>   4 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>

Given what seems to have popped up via
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1448387338-27851-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
I'm going to hold off on this until the issues there are worked out.
Once that is fixed up this work can be picked up again.

Thanks,
Laura