Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Luis,

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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