From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f70.google.com (mail-pg0-f70.google.com [74.125.83.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECD06B0253 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2017 18:50:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pg0-f70.google.com with SMTP id a190so1347736207pgc.0 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com. [134.134.136.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 92si73973316plc.147.2017.01.04.15.50.29 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:50:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI) References: <1483569999-13543-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com> From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:50:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Khalid Aziz , davem@davemloft.net, corbet@lwn.net, arnd@arndb.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com, chris.hyser@oracle.com, tushar.n.dave@oracle.com, sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, adam.buchbinder@gmail.com, minchan@kernel.org, hughd@google.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, keescook@chromium.org, allen.pais@oracle.com, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, atish.patra@oracle.com, joe@perches.com, pmladek@suse.com, jslaby@suse.cz, cmetcalf@mellanox.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, mhocko@suse.com, jmarchan@redhat.com, lstoakes@gmail.com, 0x7f454c46@gmail.com, vbabka@suse.cz, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, namit@vmware.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Khalid Aziz On 01/04/2017 03:46 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote: >> It would also be really nice to see a high-level breakdown explaining >> what you had to modify, especially since this affects all of the system >> calls that take a PROT_* argument. The sample code is nice, but it's no >> substitute for writing it down. > > I will expand the explanation in Documentation/sparc/adi.txt. I think (partially) duplicating that in a cover letter would also be nice. The documentation is a bit buried in the 1,000 lines of code. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org