Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/27] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack memory

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:26:20PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> VM_SHSTK indicates a shadow stack memory area.
> 
> A shadow stack PTE must be read-only and dirty.  For non shadow
> stack, we use a spare bit of the 64-bit PTE for dirty.  The PTE
> changes are in the next patch.

This doesn't make any sense.. the $subject and the patch seem completely
unrelated to this Changelog.