Re: [PATCH 2/9] selftests: update filesystems Makefile to work under selftests

Shuah Khan writes: > Update to work under selftests. dnotify_test will not be run as part of > selftests suite and will not included in install targets. It can be built > separately for now. > > Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan > --- >

Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: update architecture list in documentation

Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> writes: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: >> Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnel...@au1.ibm.com> writes: >> >>> Commit 65c059bcaa73 ("powerpc: Enable support for G

Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: update architecture list in documentation

Andrew Donnellan writes: > Commit 65c059bcaa73 ("powerpc: Enable support for GCC plugins") enabled GCC > plugins on powerpc, but neglected to update the architecture list in the > docs. Rectify this. > > Fixes: 65c059bcaa73 ("powerpc: Enable support for GCC

Re: [RFC v6 19/62] powerpc: ability to create execute-disabled pkeys

Ram Pai writes: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:54:31AM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: >> >> Ram Pai writes: >> >> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h >> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h >> > @@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ >> > #define

Re: [RFC v6 20/62] powerpc: store and restore the pkey state across context switches

Ram Pai writes: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 02:32:59PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: >> Ram Pai writes: >> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c >> > index 2ad725e..9429361 100644 >> > ---

Re: [RFC v6 21/62] powerpc: introduce execute-only pkey

Thiago Jung Bauermann writes: > Ram Pai writes: ... >> + >> +/* We got one, store it and use it from here on out */ >> +if (need_to_set_mm_pkey) >> +mm->context.execute_only_pkey = execute_only_pkey; >> +return

Re: [RFC v6 21/62] powerpc: introduce execute-only pkey

Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauer...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> writes: > >> Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauer...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: >>> Ram Pai <linux...@us.ibm.com> writes: >> ... >>>>

Re: [RFC v4 17/17] procfs: display the protection-key number associated with a vma

Ram Pai writes: > Display the pkey number associated with the vma in smaps of a task. > The key will be seen as below: > > VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me dw ac key=0 Why wouldn't we just emit a "ProtectionKey:" line like x86 does? See their arch_show_smap(). You should probably

Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] boot/param: add pointer to next argument to unknown parameter callback

Michal Suchanek writes: > The fadump parameter processing re-does the logic of next_arg quote > stripping to determine where the argument ends. Pass pointer to the > next argument instead to make this more robust. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek > --- >

Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] lib/cmdline.c Remove quotes symmetrically.

Michal Suchanek writes: > Remove quotes from argument value only if there is qoute on both sides. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek > --- > arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 6 ++ > lib/cmdline.c| 7 ++- Can you split that into two

Re: [PATCH v9 29/51] mm/mprotect, powerpc/mm/pkeys, x86/mm/pkeys: Add sysfs interface

Dave Hansen writes: > On 11/06/2017 12:57 AM, Ram Pai wrote: >> Expose useful information for programs using memory protection keys. >> Provide implementation for powerpc and x86. >> >> On a powerpc system with pkeys support, here is what is shown: >> >> $ head

Re: git pull

Linus Torvalds writes: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Tobin C. Harding wrote: >> >> Linus do you care what protocol? I'm patching Documentation and since >> the point is creating pull requests for you 'some people' don't matter. > > I actually

Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] ocxl: Add an IOCTL so userspace knows what OCXL features are available

"Alastair D'Silva" writes: > diff --git a/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h b/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h > index 8d2748e69c84..bb80f294b429 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h > +++ b/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h > @@ -72,5 +75,6 @@ struct ocxl_ioctl_irq_fd { > #define

Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] ocxl: Expose the thread_id needed for wait on POWER9

"Alastair D'Silva" writes: > diff --git a/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h b/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h > index 0af83d80fb3e..8d2748e69c84 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h > +++ b/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h > @@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ struct ocxl_ioctl_metadata { > __u64

Re: [v10,03/27] powerpc: initial pkey plumbing

On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 01:50:24 UTC, Ram Pai wrote: > Basic plumbing to initialize the pkey system. > Nothing is enabled yet. A later patch will enable it > once all the infrastructure is in place. > > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai Patches 3-27 applied to powerpc next,

Re: [PATCH 00/23] kconfig: move compiler capability tests to Kconfig

Masahiro Yamada writes: > > > (Case 3) > Compiler flag -foo is sensitive to endian-ness. > > > config CC_NEEDS_BIG_ENDIAN > def_bool $(cc-option -mbig-endian) && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN > > config CC_NEEDS_LITTLE_ENDIAN > def_bool $(cc-option