linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Simplify check in arch_kfence_init

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Message-ID: <aSR8l5RN0UFts6yL@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:41:11 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@...two.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>,
	D Scott Phillips <scott@...amperecomputing.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Yang Shi <yang@...amperecomputing>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Simplify check in arch_kfence_init_pool()

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 01:00:16PM +0000, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> TL;DR: checking force_pte_mapping() in arch_kfence_init_pool() is
> sufficient

Thanks Kevin. I'll push it at -rc1 since it depends on commits merged in
6.18-rc6 and I don't want to rebase my for-next branches now.

-- 
Catalin