From eb8cdec4a984fde123a91250dcc9e0bddf5eafdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernd Schmidt Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:03:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] nommu: add support for Memory Protection Units (MPU) Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the "simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory protection. In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel. There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload) however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design time. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Greg Ungerer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed