From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vk0-f70.google.com (mail-vk0-f70.google.com [209.85.213.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A436B0006 for ; Thu, 10 May 2018 03:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-vk0-f70.google.com with SMTP id e64-v6so935082vkd.5 for ; Thu, 10 May 2018 00:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f65.google.com (mail-sor-f65.google.com. [209.85.220.65]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id j3-v6sor82412uaj.135.2018.05.10.00.45.57 for (Google Transport Security); Thu, 10 May 2018 00:45:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180510014447.15989-3-mcgrof@kernel.org> References: <20180510014447.15989-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20180510014447.15989-3-mcgrof@kernel.org> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:45:56 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , linux-m68k , Linux-Arch , Linux MM , Linux Kernel Mailing List Hi Luis, On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez 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 > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org 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