Re: [PATCH v4.4 20/45] mm: Introduce lm_alias

On 17-06-19, 13:33, Julien Thierry wrote:

I think this commit was backported in 4.9 because one of the commits you dropped (6840bdd73d07 arm64: KVM: Use per-CPU vector when BP hardening is enabled) depended on it.

Looks like that. I dropped 6840bdd73d07 patch at a later point of time when the conflicts couldn't get resolved properly any further. I should have dropped $subject one as well :(

I have yet to check whether that other commit can be just dropped, however on your branch 4.4 branch, lm_alias isn't used anywhere, so we probably don't want to backport this particular patch (unless we need to actually backport the other patch in some way).

Right, dropping this doesn't generate any compilation warnings so we should be good without it.