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Message-ID: <20180131070711.pad45qmnougnh4vf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:07:11 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/3] mm, x86, powerpc: Enhancements to Memory
Protection Keys.
* Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com> wrote:
> This patch series provides arch-neutral enhancements to
> enable memory-keys on new architecutes, and the corresponding
> changes in x86 and powerpc specific code to support that.
>
> a) Provides ability to support upto 32 keys. PowerPC
> can handle 32 keys and hence needs this.
>
> b) Arch-neutral code; and not the arch-specific code,
> determines the format of the string, that displays the key
> for each vma in smaps.
>
> PowerPC implementation of memory-keys is now in powerpc/next tree.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=92e3da3cf193fd27996909956c12a23c0333da44
All three patches look sane to me. If you would like to carry these generic bits
in the PowerPC tree as well then:
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
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