* Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Borislav Petkov <b...@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 <l...@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
