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:
— Thomas Gleixner
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 :)
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