From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: READONLY_EXEC is a curious name
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:41:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414194149.GF12105@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040414212145.707555f6.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> > PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is defined in <asm-x86_64/pgtable.h>.
> >
> > Does anyone else think PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is an odd name for a set of
> > flags which enables read _and_ execute permission? What about
> > PAGE_READEXEC instead?
>
> It just follows the pattern there (default is with NX and _EXEC is
> the variant without NX). I don't care much either ways.
I asked because I'm about to submit a patch to clean up the Alpha
definitions and have to pick a name. I see parisc picked
PAGE_EXECREAD for this.
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-14 19:06 READONLY_EXEC is a curious name Jamie Lokier
2004-04-14 19:21 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-14 19:41 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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