linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 00/12] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention

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Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 11:00:13 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Chen Yucong <slaoub@...il.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, ricardo.neri@...el.com,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/12] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Changes since V10:
> *Patch 1 ("x86/insn-eval: Extend get_seg_base_addr() to also obtain segment
>  limit") of v10 has been dropped has it has been merged in the tip tree.
> *Removed unnecessary wrap-around of function calls to enforce the 80
>  chars-per-line rule. In some cases, variables were renamed.
> *Removed unnecessary casts between variables of the same width.
> *Reworked casts between variables of different width in favor of bit
>  masks. Casts were kept for arithmetic operations.
> *Reworded patch descriptions and documentation of several functions to
>  improve clarity.

For the whole series:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>