On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:09 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > (*) Right now it's near impossible to add arch specific PROT_* bits to > mmap/mprotect for fancy things like cachability attributes, or other > nifty things like reverse-endian mappings that we have on some embedded > platforms, I'm investigating ways to better separate vm_page_prot from > vm_flags so some PROT_* bits can go straight to the former without > having to be mirrored in some way in the later. The other (easier) option is to make the vm flags always 64-bit and reserve a range of bits here for the arch to use but I suppose there's going to be unhappiness about that one :-) Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>