linux-kernel - Re: Arch specific mmap attributes

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Message-Id: <20100407.000343.181989028.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:03:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Arch specific mmap attributes

From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Apr 2010 15:03:45 +0900 (JST)

> I'm not against changing kernel internal. I only disagree mmu
> attribute fashion will be become used widely.

Desktop already uses similar features via PCI mmap
attributes and such, not to mention MSR settings on
x86.

So I disagree with your assesment that this is some
HPC/embedded issue.
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