Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753911AbbHFN4V (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:56:21 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52794 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753102AbbHFN4U (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:56:20 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 1/6] mm: mlock: Refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code To: Eric B Munson , Andrew Morton References: <1438184575-10537-1-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com> <1438184575-10537-2-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Michal Hocko , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <55C36780.5050508@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:56:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 20 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/