From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-f71.google.com (mail-ed1-f71.google.com [209.85.208.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B146B26E2 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:58:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ed1-f71.google.com with SMTP id v4so3251059edm.18 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d12si5374377edh.283.2018.11.21.09.58.10 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:58:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:58:09 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc//smaps Message-ID: <20181121175809.GT12932@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20181120103515.25280-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20181120103515.25280-2-mhocko@kernel.org> <20181121175427.GB5704@rapoport-lnx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181121175427.GB5704@rapoport-lnx> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mike Rapoport Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Jan Kara , Dan Williams , David Rientjes On Wed 21-11-18 18:54:28, Mike Rapoport wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:35:13AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > > index 12a5e6e693b6..b1fda309f067 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > > @@ -496,7 +496,9 @@ flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter encoded > > > > Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will > > be present in all further kernel releases. Things get changed, the flags may > > -be vanished or the reverse -- new added. > > +be vanished or the reverse -- new added. Interpretatation of their meaning > > +might change in future as well. So each consumnent of these flags have to > > consumer? has fixed. Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs