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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/5] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas
    On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:46:12AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
    > On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 01:20, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
    > >
    > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:35:34 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
    > >
    > > > This is an implementation of "secret" mappings backed by a file descriptor.
    > > > I've dropped the boot time reservation patch for now as it is not strictly
    > > > required for the basic usage and can be easily added later either with or
    > > > without CMA.
    > >
    > > It seems early days for this, especially as regards reviewer buyin.
    > > But I'll toss it in there to get it some additional testing.
    > >
    > > A test suite in tools/testging/selftests/ would be helpful, especially
    > > for arch maintainers.
    > >
    > > I assume that user-facing manpage alterations are planned?

    > I was just about to write a mail into this thread when I saw this :-).
    >
    > So far, I don't think I saw a manual page patch. Mike, how about it?

    It is planned :)

    I have a draft, but I'm waiting for consensus about the uncached
    mappings before sending it out.

    --
    Sincerely yours,
    Mike.

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