From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: pageexec <pageexec@freemail.hu>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: clean up user_mode() use
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:10:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607021612_MC3-1-C3FD-CC89@compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060702133718.GA27549@elte.hu>
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:37:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > to avoid such mistakes in the future, the suggested solution is to
> > make user_mode() on i386 consistent with the generic expectation and
> > make it detect any user mode execution context, that is, it should
> > take the role of user_mode_vm() and a new user_mode_novm() is
> > introduced for the i386 specific cases where v86 mode can be excluded.
> > in short, the patch simply does a
> >
> > user_mode_vm -> user_mode
> > user_mode -> user_mode_novm
> >
> > substitution as appropriate.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
>
> agreed!
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Please make that second one
user_mode_novm86
Otherwise people might think it means "user mode no virtual memory."
--
Chuck
"You can't read a newspaper if you can't read." --George W. Bush
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-02 20:10 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2006-07-02 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
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2006-07-02 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-03 4:36 ` Ingo Molnar
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2006-07-02 13:37 ` Ingo Molnar
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