Re: [PATCH 1/6] events, perf: Pass protection and flags bits through mmap2 interface

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 16 2014 - 11:45:48 EST


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:33:00AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:22:19PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:48:12PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> > > From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The mmap2 interface was missing the protection and flags bits needed to
> > > accurately determine if a mmap memory area was shared or private and
> > > if it was readable or not.
> > >
> > > [tweaked patch to compile and wrote changelog]
> > > Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Peter you mentioned writing up a changelog for this patch, but you
> > > seemed busy, so I jumped the gun a little bit. Let me know how you
> > > want to do this patch if this approach is wrong.
> >
> > Oh, right, totally forgot about that. yeah I think the blub you have is
> > adequate.
>
> I realized I didn't put your sign-off even though I said the patch is from
> you. Should I repost with that? I don't know who is going to take what
> patches from this series.

I asked jolsa to pick the lot up since its mostly userspace, if he
remembers he can put it in.

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