Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX Support

When EXECMEM_ROX was disabled for Linux 6.13, it was going to try again "next cycle" to be all cleaned up and have the necessary approvals. But EXECMEM_ROX was never submitted for the Linux v6.14 merge window... Now that the merge window is over, the patches have been queued into a tip/tip.git branch and thus being staged for likely submission when the v6.15 merge window rolls around in the spring.
There have been patches worked on to rework the handling of ROX caches for module text allocations. The improved code by Microsoft's Mike Rapoport as well as now a patch from Intel's Kirill Shutemov looks like the prior issues have been addressed.
The reworked patches were queued up yesterday into the tip/tip.git's x86/mm branch. With it being queued up into a TIP branch, it should be submitted for the v6.15 merge window in March barring any last minute issues from being discovered or objections raised by Linus Torvalds during the next merge window.
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