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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:09:45 +0000
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To: David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Re: HARDENED_ATOMIC documentation

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:02:56AM -0500, David Windsor wrote:
> > Why not put the documentation right into the kernel tree?  That way it
> > is always up to date with the code (well, hopefully), it will get built
> > and hosted all over the internet at different sites (including
> > kernel.org) and is much easier to search and people can modify easier.
> >
> 
> Fair enough, I'll re-submit as a patch against something in
> Documentation/.  It doesn't appear that there's currently a good
> landing spot for this, as Documentation/security/self-protection.txt
> already looks fairly crowded.  Individual KSPP sub-project details
> would impossibly complicate this file.  Maybe a kspp/ or
> self-protection/ sub-directory with files for individual KSPP
> features?

It would be better to mirror our documentation of atomics; i.e. place
this in Documentation/core-api/refcount_ops.rst.

Developers don't care if this is part of KSPP, they care about the API.

Thanks,
Mark.

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