[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa 3/5] egl: Fix _eglPointerIsDereferencable() to ignore page residency

[Emil Velikov]

On 18 July 2017 at 21:49, Miguel A. Vico <mvicomoya at nvidia.com> wrote:
> mincore() returns 0 on success, and -1 on failure.  The last parameter
> is a vector of bytes with one entry for each page queried.  mincore
> returns page residency information in the first bit of each byte in the
> vector.
>
> Residency doesn't actually matter when determining whether a pointer is
> dereferenceable, so the output vector can be ignored.  What matters is
> whether mincore succeeds. See:
>
>   http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mincore.2.html
>
Makes sense. Can you confirm that the BSD/Solaris manpages are on the same page?

Considering they all agree
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>

-Emil