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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Replace _PAGE_USER with _PAGE_PRIV

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2016-02-29 02:36:28

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 ;-)

Cheers,
Ben.
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