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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/7] x86/xen: Simplify set_aliased_prot

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/7] x86/xen: Simplify set_aliased_prot
Date 2016-06-11 00:20 +0200
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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:50 AM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 24/05/16 23:48, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> In aa1acff356bb ("x86/xen: Probe target addresses in
>> set_aliased_prot() before the hypercall"), I added an explicit probe
>> to work around a hypercall issue.  The code can be simplified by
>> using probe_kernel_read.
>
> Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

Ingo, can you apply this one patch directly to x86/asm?  The rest of
the series is stalled pending my fixing Borislav's review comments
and, more importantly, fixing the bugs that testing it has shaken
loose.  This patch is a nice cleanup all by itself, though.

--Andy

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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/7] x86/xen: Simplify set_aliased_prot Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-11 00:20 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/7] x86/xen: Simplify set_aliased_prot Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-06-11 11:30 +0200

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