Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:06:57 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/boot/32: Delete cpuinfo_x86::wp_works_ok |
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* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:48:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> Linux refuses to boot if WP doesn't work okay, so tracking whether > >> it works serves no purpose. The only use I can see at all for wp_works_ok > >> is that it lets Xen bypass test_wp_bit(). If this is truly needed, > >> it could be more cleanly handled using X86_FEATURE_XENPV, but it > >> looks like Xen can handle test_wp_bit() correctly without special > >> cases at all. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=6415813bae75feba10b8ca3ed6634a72c2a4d313 > > > > What's up? > > > > Wow, I based on tip/x86/mm per Ingo's request, but maybe that was the > wrong branch, and apparently Mathias did the same thing in the mean > time. Whoops. I'll rebase again.
Oops, I didn't realize the duplication either. The splitting up of the patch that I requested made the merge easier I suspect - albeit that's an unintended side effect.
Thanks,
Ingo
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