On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:18 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Andrew, what tree should this go via ? I have further powerpc patches
> depending on this one... so on one hand I'd be happy to take it, but
> on the other hand, it's more likely to clash with other things...
Andrew has asked that
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 08:24 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > There is a little inconsistency, that arch_calc_vm_prot_bits
> > > and arch_vm_get_page_prot just handle the exceptional flag (SAO),
> > > whereas arch_validate_prot handles al
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 08:24 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > There is a little inconsistency, that arch_calc_vm_prot_bits
> > and arch_vm_get_page_prot just handle the exceptional flag (SAO),
> > whereas arch_validate_prot handles all of them; but I don't feel
> > so strongly about that to
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 22:11 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Sorry, Andrew got the wrong pantomime: I was appearing in Aladdin
> a couple of years ago, but this year I'm the Sleeping Beauty.
> (Did I hear a grumble of dissent from the back stalls?)
No comment :-)
> I don't find Dave's patch very hand
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:54 +, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 01:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > This patch allows architectures to define function
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:54 +, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 01:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > This patch allows architectures to define functions to deal with
> > > additional protections bits for mmap()
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 01:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > This patch allows architectures to define functions to deal with
> > additional protections bits for mmap() and mprotect().
> >
> > arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() maps additonal p
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This patch allows architectures to define functions to deal with
> additional protections bits for mmap() and mprotect().
>
> arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() maps additonal protection bits to vm_flags
> arch_vm_get_page_prot() maps additional
This patch allows architectures to define functions to deal with
additional protections bits for mmap() and mprotect().
arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() maps additonal protection bits to vm_flags
arch_vm_get_page_prot() maps additional vm_flags to the vma's vm_page_prot
arch_validate_prot() checks for val
