Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/mm/kaiser: Add a banner

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 07:54:28 EST


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:36:40PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> ** The word "shadow" needs to die, too. I know what shadow page
> tables are, and they have *nothing* to do with KAISER.

ACK to that. Calling them "shadow" is mishandling an already overloaded
term.

Let's call them the user page tables as we call the other the kernel
page tables already. Nicely balanced.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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