From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] mm: merge nopfn into fault
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:15:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180001709.32247.1060.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524100729.GB28305@infradead.org>
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:07 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Abusing __user for something entirely different is really dumb,
> just use the same __attribute__((noderef, address_space(N)) annotation
> that __user and __iomem use. but please use a different address_space
But it not an abuse. It _is_ a user pointer
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 7:37 [patch 3/8] mm: merge nopfn into fault akpm, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-19 1:46 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 23:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24 1:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 2:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24 2:16 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 3:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24 3:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24 3:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24 3:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 10:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-24 10:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-24 3:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-25 11:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-25 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-26 7:34 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-26 8:03 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-26 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
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