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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: READONLY_EXEC is a curious name
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:21:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414212145.707555f6.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040414190653.GB12105@mail.shareable.org>

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:06:53 +0100
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:

> This is not important.
> 
> 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.

-Andi 

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-14 19:23 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 [this message]
2004-04-14 19:41   ` Jamie Lokier

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