Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] mm: Introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 08/26/2015 09:20 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 25-08-15 15:03:00, Eric B Munson wrote:
> [...]
> > Would you drop your objections to the VMA flag if I drop the portions of
> > the patch that expose it to userspace?
> >
> > The rework to not use the VMA flag is pretty sizeable and is much more
> > ugly IMO.  I know that you are not wild about using bit 30 of 32 for
> > this, but perhaps we can settle on not exporting it to userspace so we
> > can reclaim it if we really need it in the future?
>
> Yes, that would be definitely more acceptable for me. I do understand
> that you are not wild about changing mremap behavior.

+1
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