Re: [PATCH V2 00/13] powerpc/vas: Page fault handling for user space NX requests

2019-12-11 Thread Haren Myneni
On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 02:38 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 06:37:09AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > What do you mean by NX ? > > It is the Power9 "Nest Accelerator". The patch series should ideally > mention that right at the start, yeah. Thanks, NX

Re: [PATCH V2 00/13] powerpc/vas: Page fault handling for user space NX requests

2019-12-09 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Hi! On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 06:37:09AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: > What do you mean by NX ? It is the Power9 "Nest Accelerator". The patch series should ideally mention that right at the start, yeah. > Up to now, NX has been standing for No-eXecute. That's a bit in segment > registers on

Re: [PATCH V2 00/13] powerpc/vas: Page fault handling for user space NX requests

2019-12-08 Thread Christophe Leroy
Hi, What do you mean by NX ? Up to now, NX has been standing for No-eXecute. That's a bit in segment registers on book3s/32 to forbid executing code. Therefore, some of your text is really misleading. If NX means something else for you, your text must be unambiguous. Christophe Le