[PATCH v7 3/6] mm: Introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT

Vlastimil Babka vbabka at suse.cz
Wed Aug 26 08:35:41 PDT 2015


On 08/26/2015 09:20 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 25-08-15 15:03:00, Eric B Munson wrote:
> [...]
>> Would you drop your objections to the VMA flag if I drop the portions of
>> the patch that expose it to userspace?
>>
>> The rework to not use the VMA flag is pretty sizeable and is much more
>> ugly IMO.  I know that you are not wild about using bit 30 of 32 for
>> this, but perhaps we can settle on not exporting it to userspace so we
>> can reclaim it if we really need it in the future?
>
> Yes, that would be definitely more acceptable for me. I do understand
> that you are not wild about changing mremap behavior.

+1


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