From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] mm: merge nopfn into fault From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <20070524100729.GB28305@infradead.org> References: <200705180737.l4I7b6cg010758@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1179963619.32247.991.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070524014223.GA22998@wotan.suse.de> <1179976659.32247.1026.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1179977184.32247.1032.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070524034557.GA20252@wotan.suse.de> <20070524100729.GB28305@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:15:09 +1000 Message-Id: <1180001709.32247.1060.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:07 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Abusing __user for something entirely different is really dumb, > just use the same __attribute__((noderef, address_space(N)) annotation > that __user and __iomem use. but please use a different address_space But it not an abuse. It _is_ a user pointer Ben. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org