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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Replace _PAGE_USER with _PAGE_PRIV
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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:19:37 +0530
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 08:50 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> _PAGE_PRIV means the page can be accessed only by kernel. This is
>> done
>> to keep pte bits similar to PowerISA 3.0 radix PTE format. User
>> pages are now makred by clearing _PAGE_PRIV bit.
>
> Very minor nit: It's not clear that PRIV means PRIVILEGED (rather than
> PRIVATE). Can you spell it out completely instead ? I like things being
> self-describing ;-)
>

Ok, I will update this

Thanks,
-aneesh