Re: READONLY_EXEC is a curious name

[Jamie Lokier]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is defined in <asm-x86_64/pgtable.h>.
> > 
> > Does anyone else think PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is an odd name for a set of
> > flags which enables read _and_ execute permission?  What about
> > PAGE_READEXEC instead?
> 
> It just follows the pattern there (default is with NX and _EXEC is
> the variant without NX). I don't care much either ways.

I asked because I'm about to submit a patch to clean up the Alpha
definitions and have to pick a name.  I see parisc picked
PAGE_EXECREAD for this.

-- Jamie
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