From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.247]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865416B002D for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:49:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EBC46FD.5010109@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:49:49 -0500 From: KOSAKI Motohiro MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: mm: convert vma->vm_flags to 64bit References: <20110412151116.B50D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <4EBC085D.3060107@jp.fujitsu.com> <1320959579.21206.24.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1320959579.21206.24.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: nai.xia@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk On 11/10/2011 4:12 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:22 -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> On 11/9/2011 11:09 PM, Nai Xia wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Did this patch get merged at last, or on this way being merged, or >>> just dropped ? >> >> Dropped. >> Linus said he dislike 64bit enhancement. > > Do you have a pointer ? (And a rationale) > > I still want to put some arch flags in there at some point... I'm sorry. I had got a machine crash awhile ago and I don't have a past mail. If my remember is correctly, Linus said he worry about an impact against 32bit x86 and he don't think current vm_flags usage is enough efficient. Maybe we need to ban useless arch specific flags at first. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org