Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Drop racy follow_pfn check

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Sun Feb 07 2021 - 16:17:46 EST


On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:43:24AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:26 AM Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 07:45:19PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > References: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20201127164131.2244124-1-daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx/
> >
> > What is the difference between this and "Link:" anyway?
>
> Afaik References: is for other reading (bug reports, discussions,
> other patch series), Link: is for patch submission itself (which I
> think some subsystem do an entire chain of, on each revision). My
> scripts aren't good enough that they add the Link: before submitting,
> I add them when I apply patches (since most patches I get don't have
> them anyway).
>
> btw since the final patch to remove follow_pfn won't be ready for 5.12
> merge window (kvm and vfio have some work to do) I think it's best if
> you just queue this up in your tree?

Boris has queued this to tip x86/sgx.

> Thanks, Daniel
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
>

/Jarkko