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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures
Hi Luis,

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> Some architectures do not define PAGE_KERNEL_RO, best we can do
> for them is to provide a fallback onto PAGE_KERNEL. Remove the
> hack from the firmware loader and move it onto the asm-generic
> header, and document while at it the affected architectures
> which do not have a PAGE_KERNEL_RO:
>
> o alpha
> o ia64
> o m68k
> o mips
> o sparc64
> o sparc
>
> Blessed-by: 0-day
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

I believe the "best we can do" is to add the missing definitions for the
architectures where the hardware does support it?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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