On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, LEROY Christophe wrote:

Why not call our new functionnality SMAP instead of calling it GUAP ?

mpe wasn't a fan of using the same terminology as other architectures. 
Having a separate term does avoid some assumptions about how things
work or are implemented, but sharing compatibility with an existing
parameter is nice.

Personally I don't really care too much about the name.

- Russell

Christophe

Russell Currey [off-list ref] a écrit :

quoted

Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <redacted>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt  

b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a5ad67d5cb16..8f78e75965f0 100644

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@
 			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings

(default)
 			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings

-	nosmap		[X86]
+	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
 			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access
Prevention)
 			even if it is supported by processor.

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2.19.1