Re: [PATCH v10 00/13] arm64: Branch Target Identification support

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:58:12PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:18:16PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:12:05PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > It's probably easier for me if you just use the existing branch, I've
> > > already got a branch based on a merge down.
> 
> > Okey doke, I'll funnel that in the direction of linux-next then. It does
> > mean that any subsequent patches for 5.8 that depend on BTI will need to
> > be based on this branch, so as long as you're ok with that then it's fine
> > by me (since I won't be able to apply patches if they refer to changes
> > introduced in the recent merge window).
> 
> That's not a problem, that's what I've got already and if I try to send
> everything based off -rc3 directly the series would get unmanagably
> large.  Actually unless you think it's a bad idea I think what I'll do
> is go and send out a couple of the preparatory changes (the insn updates
> and the last bit of annotation conversions) separately for that branch
> while I finalize the revisions of the main BTI kernel bit, hopefully
> that'll make the review a bit more approachable.

Okey doke, sounds good to me. I'm queuing stuff atm, so as long you tell
me what I need to apply things against then we should be good.

Will