[PATCH 5/5] powerpc/64s: Document that PPC supports nosmap
Russell Currey
ruscur at russell.cc
Mon Oct 29 12:06:51 AEDT 2018
On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, LEROY Christophe wrote:
> Why not call our new functionnality SMAP instead of calling it GUAP ?
mpe wasn't a fan of using the same terminology as other architectures.
Having a separate term does avoid some assumptions about how things
work or are implemented, but sharing compatibility with an existing
parameter is nice.
Personally I don't really care too much about the name.
- Russell
>
> Christophe
>
> Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc> a écrit :
>
> > Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
> > ---
> > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > index a5ad67d5cb16..8f78e75965f0 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@
> > noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings
> > (default)
> > noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
> >
> > - nosmap [X86]
> > + nosmap [X86,PPC]
> > Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access
> > Prevention)
> > even if it is supported by processor.
> >
> > --
> > 2.19.1
>
>
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