From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753043AbVHGX5C (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:57:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753044AbVHGX5B (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:57:01 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:641 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753040AbVHGX5B (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:57:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:57:05 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Chris Wright Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c Message-ID: <374910000.1123459025@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20050807234411.GE7991@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <372830000.1123456808@[10.10.2.4]> <20050807234411.GE7991@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Chris Wright wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 16:44:11 -0700): > * Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@mbligh.org) wrote: >> Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. >> Introduce make_pages_readonly and make_pages_writable where appropriate >> for Xen, defined as a no-op on other subarches. Same for > > Maybe this is a bad name, since make_pages_readonly/writable has > intutitive meaning, and then is non-inutitively a no-op (for default). You're welcome to suggest something else if you want, though it would have been easier if you'd done it the first time you saw this patch, not now. Going through this stuff multiple times is going to get very boring very fast. xen_make_pages_readonly / xen_make_pages_writable ? M.