From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4420FB66.3090206@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:23:18 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo: Wired" References: <441FEFC7.5030109@yahoo.com.au> <442098B6.5000607@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Stone Wang Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Stone Wang wrote: > The name "Wired" could be changed to which one most kids think better > fits the job. > > I choosed "Wired" for: > "Locked" will conflict with PG_locked bit of a pags. > "Pinned" indicates a short-term lock,so not fits the job too. > Err we're going around in circles here. This tangent started because I suggested that you could call them "mlock" or "mlocked". But don't get too hung up on the naming. I pointed out quite a lot of much more fundamental problems. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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