Re: [patch 40/60] x86: PMD align entry text

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 03:07:58 EST


On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 03:07:46PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The (irq)entry text must be visible in the user space page tables. To allow
> simple PMD based sharing, make the entry text PMD aligned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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