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Re: + x86-implement-pte_special.patch added to -mm tree

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From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...>
To: <npiggin@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Cc: <mm-commits@...>, <andi@...>, <apw@...>, <jens.axboe@...>, <mingo@...>, <pbadari@...>, <shaggy@...>, <tglx@...>, <zach.brown@...>
Subject: Re: + x86-implement-pte_special.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 11:53 am

Wait... what the heck is a "special" page? Isn't that a terrible name

for _anything_? Or is there a tradition to the name? It sounds like it

should be named "novma" or "autonomous" or something instead.

Something that carries at least a little more information than

"special". Where can I find the documentation for this bit?


Has this been discussed on LKML? Is the name a result of consensus or whim?


Help! :-)


Vegard


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"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while

the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it

disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."

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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <mm-commits@...>, <andi@...>, <apw@...>, <jens.axboe@...>, <mingo@...>, <pbadari@...>, <shaggy@...>, <tglx@...>, <zach.brown@...>
Subject: Re: + x86-implement-pte_special.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 8:43 pm

It has been posted many times.


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