There will be some clash with [1], but nothing that cannot be sorted out
easily by moving the functions added to kernel/fork.c to wherever the vma
bits will live.
Briefly tested with some basic /dev/mem test I crafted. I want to convert
them to selftests, but that might or might not require a bit of
more work (e.g., /dev/mem accessibility).
So for the x86 bits, once it passes review by the fine MM folks:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Thanks!
And I suppose this rewrite will be carried in -mm?
Yes, will make conflicts with Lorenzo's work easier to resolve (in
whatever order this ends up going in). I suspect there are not many PAT
related things on the horizon.
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
