Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:55:07 +0100
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32
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Hi Thomas,

thanks for your review, I'll work in your suggestions for the next post.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:20:40PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Joerg Roedel wrote:

> >  16 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
> 
> Impressively small and well done !

Thanks :)

> Can you please make that patch set against
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-pti-for-linus
> 
> so we immediately have it backportable for 4.14 stable? It's only a trivial
> conflict in pgtable.h, but we'd like to make the life of stable as simple
> as possible. They have enough headache with the pre 4.14 trees.

Sure, will do.

> We can pick some of the simple patches which make defines and inlines
> available out of the pile right away and apply them to x86/pti to shrink
> the amount of stuff you have to worry about.

This should be patches 4, 5, 7, 11, and I think 13 is also simple
enough. Feel free to take them, but I can also carry them forward if
needed.

Thanks,

	Joerg