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Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 11:19:22 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 09/30] arm/mm: Enable ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:36:52PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 3/2/22 3:35 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > I doubt the switch() variant would give better code on any platform.
> > 
> > What about using tables everywhere, using designated initializers
> > to improve readability?
> 
> Designated initializers ? Could you please be more specific. A table look
> up on arm platform would be something like this and arm_protection_map[]
> needs to be updated with user_pgprot like before.

There is *absolutely* nothing wrong with that. Updating it once during
boot is way more efficient than having to compute the value each time
vm_get_page_prot() gets called.

Thanks.

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