From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F25E6B0071 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:19:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:21:38 +0000 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] add MAP_UNLOCKED mmap flag Message-ID: <20100119132138.473cf073@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100119120712.GM14345@redhat.com> References: <20100118141938.GI30698@redhat.com> <84144f021001180805q4d1203b8qab8ccb1de87b2866@mail.gmail.com> <20100118170816.GA22111@redhat.com> <84144f021001181009m52f7eaebp2bd746f92de08da9@mail.gmail.com> <20100118181942.GD22111@redhat.com> <20100118191031.0088f49a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100119071734.GG14345@redhat.com> <84144f021001182337o274c8ed3q8ce60581094bc2b9@mail.gmail.com> <20100119075205.GI14345@redhat.com> <20100119115442.131efa78@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100119120712.GM14345@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Gleb Natapov Cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-mm@kvack.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrew.c.morrow@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" List-ID: > > And you want millions of users to have kernels with weird extra functions > > whole sole value is one test environment you wish to run > > > We are talking about 4 lines of code that other people find useful too > and they commented in this thread. This wouldn't be the first kernel > feature not used by millions of people. It wouldn't be the first completely dumb mistake in the kernel either, but one dumb mistake doesn't argue for including others -- 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