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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:13:14 +0000
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 0/6] implement getrandom() in vDSO
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 05:17:52PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Le 12/12/2022 ? 19:53, Jason A. Donenfeld a ?crit?:
> > Changes v11->v12:
> > ----------------
> > - In order to avoid mlock()ing pages, and the related rlimit and fork
> >    inheritance issues there, Introduce VM_DROPPABLE to prevent swapping
> >    while meeting the cache-like requirements of vDSO getrandom().
> > 
> >    This has some tenticles in mm/ and arch/x86/ code, so I've marked the
> >    two patches for that as still RFC, while the rest of the series is not
> >    RFC.
> > 
> > - Mandate that opaque state blobs don't straddle page boundaries, so
> >    that VM_DROPPABLE can work on page-level granularity rather than
> >    allocation-level granularity.
> > 
> > - Add compiler barriers to vDSO getrandom() to prevent theoretical
> >    reordering potential.
> > 
> > - Initialize the trials loop counter in the chacha test.
> 
> I would have liked to give it a try on powerpc, but the series 
> conflicts. I tried both on v6.1 and on linus/master from now:
> 

Same here, I can't figure out how to apply this series.

It would help if people always used the --base option to git format-patch...

- Eric