On Nov 26, 2018, at 2:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 12:35:35PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:

quoted

Nadav Amit (9):
 Fix "x86/alternatives: Lockdep-enforce text_mutex in text_poke*()"
 x86/jump_label: Use text_poke_early() during early init
 fork: provide a function for copying init_mm
 x86/alternative: initializing temporary mm for patching
 x86/alternative: use temporary mm for text poking
 x86/kgdb: avoid redundant comparison of patched code
 x86: avoid W^X being broken during modules loading
 x86/jump-label: remove support for custom poker
 x86/alternative: remove the return value of text_poke_*()

arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h        |   2 -
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h   |  32 +++++
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h       |   3 +
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h |   7 +-
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c        | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c         |  19 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c               |  25 +---
arch/x86/kernel/module.c             |   2 +-
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c                |  35 +++++
arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c                |   2 -
include/linux/filter.h               |   6 +
include/linux/sched/task.h           |   1 +
init/main.c                          |   3 +
kernel/fork.c                        |  24 +++-
kernel/module.c                      |  10 ++
15 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

Thanks Nadav!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

No problem, Peter.

One small request - on [02/10], since after your review the patch changed to
be the single line that you provided, I set you as a co-developer. IIUC this
requires your signed-off-by.

Thanks again for all the reviews and the help.