linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/vsyscall: Fix documentation to reflect the default mode

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Message-Id: <6bf667ca-da46-4759-b1b0-5aa56dd2eb28@app.fastmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:58:00 -0800
From:   "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...nel.org>
To:     "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>,
        "Sohil Mehta" <sohil.mehta@...el.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Kees Cook" <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/vsyscall: Fix documentation to reflect the default mode



On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com> writes:
>
>> The default vsyscall mode has been updated from emulate to xonly for a
>> while. Update the kernel-parameters doc to reflect that.
>>
>> Fixes: 625b7b7f79c6 ("x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly")
>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
>> ---
>> Do documentation fixes typically get backported to stable? I haven't included
>> a stable cc assuming they do not.
>>
>>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Applied, thanks.

Belated ack!  Sohil, thanks for the fix.

>
> jon