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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWLjX-OavON-rj50kZyvV5+Pf0x34WJbcdKsCgAQA7TwQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:41:25 +0100
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 
	Liam.Howlett@...cle.com, agordeev@...ux.ibm.com, borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com, 
	gor@...ux.ibm.com, hca@...ux.ibm.com, kees@...nel.org, 
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-mm@...ck.org, svens@...ux.ibm.com, thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mseal sysmap: add arch-support txt

Hi Jeff,

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 23:26, Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM Lorenzo Stoakes
> <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:06:23AM +0000, jeffxu@...omium.org wrote:
> > > From: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>
> > > Add Documentation/features/core/mseal_sys_mappings/arch-support.txt
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>

Thanks for your patch!

> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/features/core/mseal_sys_mappings/arch-support.txt
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> > > +#
> > > +# Feature name:          mseal-system-mappings
> > > +#         Kconfig:       ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS
> > > +#         description:   arch supports mseal system mappings
> > > +#
> > > +    -----------------------
> > > +    |         arch |status|
> > > +    -----------------------
> > > +    |       alpha: | TODO |
> > > +    |         arc: | TODO |
> > > +    |         arm: |  N/A |
> > > +    |       arm64: |  ok  |
> > > +    |        csky: | TODO |
> > > +    |     hexagon: | TODO |
> > > +    |   loongarch: | TODO |
> > > +    |        m68k: | TODO |
> > > +    |  microblaze: | TODO |
> > > +    |        mips: | TODO |
> > > +    |       nios2: | TODO |
> > > +    |    openrisc: | TODO |
> > > +    |      parisc: | TODO |
> > > +    |     powerpc: | TODO |
> > > +    |       riscv: | TODO |
> > > +    |        s390: |  ok  |
> > > +    |          sh: | TODO |
> > > +    |       sparc: | TODO |
> > > +    |          um: | TODO |
> > > +    |         x86: |  ok  |
> > > +    |      xtensa: | TODO |
> > > +    -----------------------

> > Plus I feel this need expansion a bit 'N/A' is because of being non-64 bit
> > right?
> >
> Below is the definition of N/A in Documentation/features/arch-support.txt
>    | N/A|  # feature doesn't apply to the architecture
>
> It fits the arm case because mseal is not supported in 32 bit.

IIUIC, you can already s@...O@N/A@ for all other 32-bit architectures,
so we don't accidentally spend time on looking into adding the support?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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