From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:00:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] madvise(MADV_TRUNCATE) Message-Id: <20051027190011.5503a297.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <43617E87.4040605@us.ibm.com> References: <1130366995.23729.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200510271038.52277.ak@suse.de> <20051027131725.GI5091@opteron.random> <1130425212.23729.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051027151123.GO5091@opteron.random> <20051027112054.10e945ae.akpm@osdl.org> <20051027200434.GT5091@opteron.random> <20051027135058.2f72e706.akpm@osdl.org> <20051027213721.GX5091@opteron.random> <20051027152340.5e3ae2c6.akpm@osdl.org> <20051028002231.GC5091@opteron.random> <20051027173243.41ecd335.akpm@osdl.org> <43617E87.4040605@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: andrea@suse.de, ak@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, jdike@addtoit.com, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > I am still not clear on the consensus here - the plan is go forward > with the patch (ofcourse, naming changes) and may be later add > (fd, offset, len) version of it through sys_holepunch ? Spose so. . Please ensure that the changlog captures everything which we've discussed. > If so, I can quickly redo my patch + I need to work out bugs in > shm_truncate_range(). Don't forget VM_NONLINEAR. And VM_HUGETLB, VM_IO, VM_whatever come to that. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org