Re: [PATCH Part1 v5 17/38] x86/mm: Add support to validate memory when changing C-bit

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 10:00:27 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> I replied to your previous comment. Depending on the npages value, the
> __set_page_state() will be called multiple times and on each call it
> needs to clear desc before populate it.

Ah, now I missed it, sorry.

> So, I do not see strong reason to use kzalloc() during the desc
> allocation.

Yeah, then you don't need it.

Thx.

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