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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:54:48 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] Architecture defined limit on memory region
 random shift.
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Please add changelogs.  An explanation of what a "limit on memory
region random shift" is would be nice ;) Why does it exist, why are we
doing this, etc.  Surely there's something to be said - at present this
is just a lump of random code?