Re: [discuss] pte_{ex,rd}protect

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 07:30:55 EST


On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Various architectures define these, but they aren't being used anywhere -
> candidates for removal? The more that (at least) on i386 and x86-64
> pte_exprotect() is not symmetrical to pte_exec() and pte_mkexec()...

They should be removed everywhere imho

-Andi
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