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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:38:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4][for-next]mm: add a new vector based madvise syscall
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Hello Shaohua Li,

On 17 February 2016 at 18:47, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 04:08:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:03:37 -0800 Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> wrote:

[...]

>> It would be good for us to have a look at the manpage before going too
>> far with the patch - this helps reviewers to think about the proposed
>> interface and behaviour.
>>
>> I'll queue this up for a bit of testing, although it won't get tested
>> much.  The syscall fuzzers will presumably hit on it.

Please don't forget the other piece. A patch, or a suitable piece of
text for the madvise.2 man page please!

Cheers,

Michael


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