* pte_{ex,rd}protect
@ 2007-05-10 9:52 Jan Beulich
2007-05-10 11:30 ` [discuss] pte_{ex,rd}protect Andi Kleen
2007-05-10 15:53 ` pte_{ex,rd}protect Christoph Hellwig
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From: Jan Beulich @ 2007-05-10 9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, discuss
Various architectures define these, but they aren't being used anywhere -
candidates for removal? The more that (at least) on i386 and x86-64
pte_exprotect() is not symmetrical to pte_exec() and pte_mkexec()...
Jan
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* Re: [discuss] pte_{ex,rd}protect
2007-05-10 9:52 pte_{ex,rd}protect Jan Beulich
@ 2007-05-10 11:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-10 15:53 ` pte_{ex,rd}protect Christoph Hellwig
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2007-05-10 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich; +Cc: linux-kernel, discuss
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Various architectures define these, but they aren't being used anywhere -
> candidates for removal? The more that (at least) on i386 and x86-64
> pte_exprotect() is not symmetrical to pte_exec() and pte_mkexec()...
They should be removed everywhere imho
-Andi
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* Re: pte_{ex,rd}protect
2007-05-10 9:52 pte_{ex,rd}protect Jan Beulich
2007-05-10 11:30 ` [discuss] pte_{ex,rd}protect Andi Kleen
@ 2007-05-10 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2007-05-10 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich; +Cc: linux-kernel, discuss
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Various architectures define these, but they aren't being used anywhere -
> candidates for removal? The more that (at least) on i386 and x86-64
> pte_exprotect() is not symmetrical to pte_exec() and pte_mkexec()...
Yeah, just kill them.
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