Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Thu May 10 2018 - 13:14:40 EST


On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 03:33:55PM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 09:45:56AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Some architectures just don't have PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC. The mm/nommu.c
> > > and mm/vmalloc.c code have been using PAGE_KERNEL as a fallback for years.
> > > Move this fallback to asm-generic.
> > >
> > > Architectures which do not define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC yet:
> > >
> > > o alpha
> > > o mips
> > > o openrisc
> > > o sparc64
> >
> > The above list seems to be far from complete?
>
> I'll look again. If you know of others lemme know.

You know, better just ignore documenting these. I'll respin without that.

Luis