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SubjectRe: [PATCH v11 0/3] mm, x86, powerpc: Enhancements to Memory Protection Keys.
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> writes:

> * Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch series provides arch-neutral enhancements to
>> enable memory-keys on new architecutes, and the corresponding
>> changes in x86 and powerpc specific code to support that.
>>
>> a) Provides ability to support upto 32 keys. PowerPC
>> can handle 32 keys and hence needs this.
>>
>> b) Arch-neutral code; and not the arch-specific code,
>> determines the format of the string, that displays the key
>> for each vma in smaps.
>>
>> PowerPC implementation of memory-keys is now in powerpc/next tree.
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=92e3da3cf193fd27996909956c12a23c0333da44
>
> All three patches look sane to me. If you would like to carry these generic bits
> in the PowerPC tree as well then:
>
> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks.

I'll put them in powerpc next and probably send to Linus next week in a
2nd pull request for 4.16.

cheers

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