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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:16:47 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] x86, mm: setup page table from top-down
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:14 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 10:38 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> attached patch on top of this patch will fix the problem?
>>
>
>         .mapping = {
> -               .pagetable_reserve              = native_pagetable_reserve,
> +               .mark_page_ro                   = mark_page_ro_noop;
>         },
>
> I have already objected to this naming in the past, because it describes an
> implementation ("hypervisor make readonly") as opposed to a semantic
> function "make this page permissible to use as a page table".  I would call
> it pagetable_prepare or something like that.

please check v7 series with /46 in the title.
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