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Message-ID: <YrVHvv0spuMsC1In@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:12:30 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, hch@...radead.org, christophe.leroy@...roup.eu,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, openrisc@...ts.librecores.org,
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        linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org,
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        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 00/26] mm/mmap: Drop __SXXX/__PXXX macros from across
 platforms

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 10:13:13AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> vm_get_page_prot(), in order for it to be reused on platforms that do not
> require custom implementation. Finally, ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT can just
> be dropped, as all platforms now define and export vm_get_page_prot(), via
> looking up a private and static protection_map[] array. protection_map[]
> data type is the following for all platforms without deviation (except the
> powerpc one which is shared between 32 and 64 bit platforms), keeping it
> unchanged for now.
> 
> static pgprot_t protection_map[16] __ro_after_init

On most architectures this should be const now, only very few ever
modify it.

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