From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A036B006E for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2015 07:52:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id bs8so3372561wib.5 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p5si3915264wic.61.2015.02.04.04.52.20 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:52:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:52:18 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 1/7] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE) Message-ID: <20150204125218.GE29434@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1413799924-17946-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1413799924-17946-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20141127144725.GB19157@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20141130235652.GA10333@bbox> <20141202100125.GD27014@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20141203000026.GA30217@bbox> <20141203101329.GB23236@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20141205070816.GB3358@bbox> <20141205083249.GA2321@dhcp22.suse.cz> <54D0F9BC.4060306@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54D0F9BC.4060306@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mel Gorman , Jason Evans , zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, "Kirill A. Shutemov" , "Kirill A. Shutemov" On Tue 03-02-15 17:39:24, Michael Kerrisk wrote: [...] > If I'm reading the conversation right, the initially proposed text > was from the BSD man page (which would be okay), but most of the > text above seems to have come straight from the page here: > http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?madvise+3 > > Right? > > Unfortunately, I don't think we can use that text. It's from the > Solaris man page as far as I can tell, and I doubt that it's > under a license that we can use. Ohh, I wasn't aware of that restriction and didn't notice anything at the man page nor http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi. But you are definitely right that it would be better to not use this source. Sorry about that, I should have noticed that myself. > If that's the case, we need to go back and come up with an > original text. It might draw inspiration from the Solaris page, > and take actual text from the BSD page (which is under a free > license), and it might also draw inspiration from Jon Corbet's > description at http://lwn.net/Articles/590991/. > > Could you take another shot this please! Minchan is obviously working on one and I will review it once he is done with it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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