From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4F146B005C for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AC12902.2040608@crca.org.au> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:22:10 +1000 From: Nigel Cunningham MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: No more bits in vm_area_struct's vm_flags. References: <4AB9A0D6.1090004@crca.org.au> <20090924100518.78df6b93.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <4ABC80B0.5010100@crca.org.au> <20090925174009.79778649.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AC0234F.2080808@crca.org.au> <20090928120450.c2d8a4e2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090928033624.GA11191@localhost> <20090928125705.6656e8c5.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Hugh Dickins Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Wu Fengguang , LKML , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Hi. Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > unsigned long long is certainly the natural choice: that way leaves > freedom for people to add more flags in future without worrying about > which flags variable to put them into. I'd better explain some of my > objections to Nigel's patch in a reply to him rather than here. I'd prefer long long too if it's feasible. I'm just not an expert on the issues, and so went in the direction I was pushed :) It looks a lot cleaner and simpler to me, too, to keep everything in one variable. Regards, Nigel -- 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