From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:35:55 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] mincore for i386, against 2.3.51 In-Reply-To: <200003131828.KAA82343@google.engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Chuck Lever Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I don't like the "incore" thing. I think that "incore" should be a generic VM function, and be based solely on the VMA and the associated address space. The fact that the current shared memory implementation doesn't use address spaces is an acknowledged bug and misfeature, not an excuse to perpetuate the problem.. So I'd prefer something that does not have the "incore" function at all, and if that convinces somebody else to change shm to use the address_space stuff to get a working mincore(), all the better. Ok? Linus -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/