[PATCHv6 0/8] Better page protections for arm64

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Nov 25 07:33:25 PST 2014


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:50:37PM +0000, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Laura,

> This is v6 of the series to add stricter page protections for arm64.
> The goal is to have text be RO/NX and everything else be RW/NX.
> The biggest change here is the addition of ioremap_exec for EFI
> services. The series did its job and caught EFI services trying to
> use regular RAM for code purposes.

I've taken patches 1-3 + 5 of this series. I appreciate that the `meat' is
in the later parts of the series, but I think there's still some review
needed there and it makes sense to take the independent parts first.

Cheers,

Will



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