[PATCH v2 0/9] Fix kpti-enabled kernels for Cavium ThunderX

[Will Deacon]

Hi Ard,

On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 11:36:04AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 29 January 2018 at 11:59, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is version two of the patches I posted on Friday:
> >
> >   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-January/556304.html
> >
> > Changes since v1 include:
> >
> >   * Use SCTLR_ELx_M instead of open-coded #1
> >   * Changed section attributes for .idmap.text to reflect actual mappings
> >   * Rejigged phys_to_pte for consistency with pte_to_phys
> >   * Added reviewer tags
> >
> 
> Any chance we could base this on the arm64/kpti branch rather than
> for-next/core? Any backports of kpti will need to include this series
> as well, or we break ThunderX, and I'd rather have you merge it into
> for-next/core rather than the various backporters (whose level of
> familiarity with this code is invariably lower than yours) into the
> stable trees.

I'd prefer to have this based on for-next/core for ease of merging, but I'll
do a version for the kpti branch too (probably at -rc1). Once mainline has
settled down, I plan to rebuild kpti with references to upstream commits
etc.

Will