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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:43:52 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>, Mimi Zohar
 <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Cc: igor.stoppa@...wei.com, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/17] prmem: test cases for memory protection

> +static bool is_address_protected(void *p)
> +{
> +	struct page *page;
> +	struct vmap_area *area;
> +
> +	if (unlikely(!is_vmalloc_addr(p)))
> +		return false;
> +	page = vmalloc_to_page(p);
> +	if (unlikely(!page))
> +		return false;
> +	wmb(); /* Flush changes to the page table - is it needed? */

No.

The rest of this is just pretty verbose and seems to have been very
heavily copied and pasted.  I guess that's OK for test code, though.

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