On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:38 PM David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Don't be surprised if we see more separation like this in the future too. Yes, with the whole meltdown fiasco, there's actually more pressure to add more support for separation of kernel/user address spaces. As Andy pointed out, it's been discussed as a future wish-list for x86-64 too. But yeah, right now the *common* architectures all distinguish kernel and user space by pointers (ie x86-64, arm64 and powerpc). Linus