Re: [RFC PATCH v3] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI)

[Khalid Aziz]

On 01/04/2017 04:31 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> One other high-level comment:  It would be nice to see the
> arch-independent and x86 portions broken out and explained in their own
> right, even if they're small patches.  It's a bit cruel to make us
> scroll through a thousand lines of sparc code to see the bits
> interesting to us.

Sure, that is very reasonable. I will do that.

> It would also be really nice to see a high-level breakdown explaining
> what you had to modify, especially since this affects all of the system
> calls that take a PROT_* argument.  The sample code is nice, but it's no
> substitute for writing it down.

I will expand the explanation in Documentation/sparc/adi.txt.

Thanks!

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Khalid