Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:23 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I've done some basic smoke testing (~2 hours of LTP+xfstests) on the
> kernel with the three topmost patches from
>
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/jikos.git/log/?h=pagecache-sidechannel
>
> applied (also attaching to this mail), and no obvious breakage popped up.
>
> So if noone sees any principal problem there, I'll happily submit it with
> proper attribution etc.

So this seems to have died down, and a week later we seem to not have
a lot of noise here any more. I think it means people either weren't
testing it, or just didn't find any real problems.

I've reverted the 'let's try to just remove the code' part in my tree.
But I didn't apply the two other patches yet. Any final comments
before that should happen?

                     Linus