Re: [PATCH] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Luis,

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some architectures do not define PAGE_KERNEL_RO, best we can do
> for them is to provide a fallback onto PAGE_KERNEL. Remove the
> hack from the firmware loader and move it onto the asm-generic
> header, and document while at it the affected architectures
> which do not have a PAGE_KERNEL_RO:
>
>   o alpha
>   o ia64
>   o m68k
>   o mips
>   o sparc64
>   o sparc
>
> Blessed-by: 0-day
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

I believe the "best we can do" is to add the missing definitions for the
architectures where the hardware does support it?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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