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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, jbaron@redhat.com, ak@muc.de,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, hugh@veritas.com, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp,
	lethal@linux-sh.org, paulus@samba.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
	spyro@f2s.com, tony.luck@intel.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] make PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:53:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <450A31D4.1020108@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609150139.k8F1dl7Y014791@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

> Additional discussion:
> 
> Several architectures, including x86, can not support write-only mappings. 

actually on x86 the kernel can support it, just that it's highly expensive in
terms of performance so we don't currently do it. We could if we wanted to though.

This patch will create a userspace ABI precedent that will hurt us if we ever
decide to implement this, or if Intel or AMD add support for this to the cpu...

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-15  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-15  1:39 [patch 1/1] make PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ akpm
2006-09-15  4:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-09-15 11:10   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-15  8:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-09-15 10:58   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-15  8:47 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-15 11:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-16  0:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-09-17 11:59 ` Paul Mundt
2006-09-17 20:24 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-09-17 20:48   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-17 21:14   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-17 21:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-18  0:57     ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-09-18  2:03       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-18  4:31         ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-09-18  8:15           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-09-18  9:26       ` Alan Cox

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