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Quotes of the week, naming edition

Several people including Linus requested to change the KAISER name. We came up with a list of technically correct acronyms:

User Address Space Separation, prefix uass_

Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines, prefix fuckwit_

but we are politically correct people so we settled for

Kernel Page Table Isolation, prefix kpti_

Linus, your call :)

Thomas Gleixner

I'm not set on MAP_REQUIRED. I came up with some awful names (MAP_TODDLER, MAP_TANTRUM, MAP_ULTIMATUM, MAP_BOSS, MAP_PROGRAM_MANAGER, etc). But I think we should drop FIXED from the middle of the name.
Matthew Wilcox

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