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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:45:47 -0800
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
Cc: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, igor.stoppa@...wei.com,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] __wr_after_init: generic header
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:38:16AM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > +static inline void *wr_memset(void *p, int c, __kernel_size_t len)
> > +{
> > + return __wr_op((unsigned long)p, (unsigned long)c, len, WR_MEMSET);
> > +}
>
> What do you think about doing something like:
>
> #define __wr __attribute__((address_space(5)))
>
> And then make all the pointers to write-rarely memory to use this attribute?
> It might require more changes to the code, but can prevent bugs.
I like this idea. It was something I was considering suggesting.
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