LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:45:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUJTKqqWzFi594_y_F1HdONr3+FOSTzg-n0ogoroFUqpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180510014447.15989-3-mcgrof@kernel.org>

Hi Luis,

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> Some architectures just don't have PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC. The mm/nommu.c
> and mm/vmalloc.c code have been using PAGE_KERNEL as a fallback for years.
> Move this fallback to asm-generic.
>
> Architectures which do not define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC yet:
>
>   o alpha
>   o mips
>   o openrisc
>   o sparc64

The above list seems to be far from complete?

> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-10  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-10  1:44 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: PAGE_KERNEL_* fallbacks Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10  1:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10  1:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC " Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10  7:45   ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2018-05-10 15:33     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10 17:14       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-10  6:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: PAGE_KERNEL_* fallbacks Greg KH
2018-05-10 17:15   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-14 14:23     ` Greg KH

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAMuHMdUJTKqqWzFi594_y_F1HdONr3+FOSTzg-n0ogoroFUqpA@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=geert@linux-m68k.org \
    --cc=arnd@arndb.de \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=linux-arch@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mcgrof@kernel.org \
    --cc=willy@infradead.org \
    --subject='Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).