Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: PAGE_KERNEL_* fallbacks

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu May 10 2018 - 02:08:13 EST


On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:44:45PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> While dusting out the firmware loader closet I spotted a PAGE_KERNEL_*
> fallback hack. This hurts my eyes, and it should also be blinding
> others. Turns out we have other PAGE_KERNEL_* fallback hacks in
> other places.
>
> This moves them to asm-generic, and keeps track of architectures which
> need some love or review. At least 0-day was happy with the changes.
>
> Matthew Wilcox did put together a PAGE_KERNEL_RO patch for ia64, that
> needs review and testing, and if it goes well it should be merged.
>
> Luis R. Rodriguez (2):
> mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures
> mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures
>
> drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c | 5 ----
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/nommu.c | 4 ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ---
> 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

No list of changes that happened from v1? :(