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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 00:59:21 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow ptrace and /proc/PID/mem to read fixmap pages
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Roland McGrath wrote:
> This patch is i386-specific and should probably be done another way, but
> it's what I am using now.  It works and is well-tested. 

Would it be better to simply check whether _PAGE_USER is set in the pte?

-- Jamie