linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 21/21] arm64/sve: Lower the maximum allocation for the SVE ptrace regset

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Message-ID: <05cbeae5-cd40-45a9-9b4f-68b9b20a6839@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:13:07 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	catalin.marinas@....com, oleg@...hat.com, mark.rutland@....com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 21/21] arm64/sve: Lower the maximum
 allocation for the SVE ptrace regset

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 08:51:09AM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:

> As I mentioned [1], there's a hidden dependency here and without it
> the patch doesn't actually do anything useful in kernel 6.6 nor kernel
> 6.1. Maybe the right answer is to backport this with the hardcoded
> value of "16" for those older kernels? Maybe Mark has a better
> suggestion?

Your suggestion should be fine.

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