Re: [patch 3/8] mm: merge nopfn into fault

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24T10:15:09Z

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.