On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:38:07PM +1000, Balbir Singh wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:44:50 -0700 > Ram Pai <linux...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > powerpc needs an additional vma bit to support 32 keys. > > Till the additional vma bit lands in include/linux/mm.h > > we have to define it in powerpc specific header file. > > This is needed to get pkeys working on power. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linux...@us.ibm.com> > > --- > > "This" being an arch specific hack for the additional bit?
Yes. arch-specific hack. I am trying to get the arch specific changes merged parallelly, along with these patches. Don't know which one will merge first. Regardless of which patch-set lands-in first; I have organized the code such that nothing breaks. RP
