From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yk0-f175.google.com (mail-yk0-f175.google.com [209.85.160.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476256B0253 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:56:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ykeo23 with SMTP id o23so62525525yke.3 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 06:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p11si4203930wik.60.2015.08.06.06.56.19 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Aug 2015 06:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 1/6] mm: mlock: Refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code References: <1438184575-10537-1-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com> <1438184575-10537-2-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <55C36780.5050508@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:56:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1438184575-10537-2-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Eric B Munson , Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/29/2015 05:42 PM, Eric B Munson wrote: > Extending the mlock system call is very difficult because it currently > does not take a flags argument. A later patch in this set will extend > mlock to support a middle ground between pages that are locked and > faulted in immediately and unlocked pages. To pave the way for the new > system call, the code needs some reorganization so that all the actual > entry point handles is checking input and translating to VMA flags. > > Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson > Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov > Cc: Michal Hocko > Cc: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka -- 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