From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c10so1590680nfd.6 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:21:58 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_HINT Message-ID: <20081007112157.GA5126@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081006132651.GG3180@one.firstfloor.org> <1223303879-5555-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <20081007195837.5A6B.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20081007112119.GG20740@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081007112119.GG20740@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton List-ID: --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 01:21:19PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Honestly, I don't like that qemu specific feature insert into shmem cor= e. >=20 > I wouldn't say it's a qemu specific interface. While qemu would=20 > be the first user I would expect more in the future. It's a pretty > obvious extension. In fact it nearly should be default, if the > risk of breaking old applications wasn't too high. It's bad idea. It will break POSIX compatible. --=20 Regards, Kirill A. Shutemov + Belarus, Minsk + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/ --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjrRlUACgkQbWYnhzC5v6o9ZQCfdXw0/6+rOfTVNOdznzH0YGg6 2j0An1LTSY9Db6LJchJe2avOxbzuFcSH =BigC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- -- 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