Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261532AbVDZOH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:07:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261534AbVDZOH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:07:58 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41]:19913 "EHLO ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261532AbVDZOHu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:07:50 -0400 Message-ID: <426E4B07.1040400@ammasso.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:07:03 -0500 From: Timur Tabi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: roland@topspin.com, hch@infradead.org, hozer@hozed.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation References: <200544159.Ahk9l0puXy39U6u6@topspin.com> <20050411142213.GC26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <52mzs51g5g.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411163342.GE26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <5264yt1cbu.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411180107.GF26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <52oeclyyw3.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411171347.7e05859f.akpm@osdl.org> <4263DEC5.5080909@ammasso.com> <20050418164316.GA27697@infradead.org> <4263E445.8000605@ammasso.com> <20050423194421.4f0d6612.akpm@osdl.org> <426BABF4.3050205@ammasso.com> <52is2bvvz5.fsf@topspin.com> <20050425135401.65376ce0.akpm@osdl.org> <521x8yv9vb.fsf@topspin.com> <20050425151459.1f5fb378.akpm@osdl.org> <426D6D68.6040504@ammasso.com> <20050425153256.3850ee0a.akpm@osdl.org> <52vf6atnn8.fsf@topspin.com> <20050425171145.2f0fd7f8.akpm@osdl.org> <52acnmtmh6.fsf@topspin.com> <20050425173757.1dbab90b.akpm@osdl.org> <426DA58F.3020508@ammasso.com> <20050425201629.11d9118f.akpm@osdl.org> <426DB7B2.7000409@ammasso.com> <20050425213315.27db35db.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050425213315.27db35db.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 16 Andrew Morton wrote: > Precisely. That's why I suggested that we have an alternative vma->vm_flag > bit which behaves in a similar manner to VM_LOCKED (say, VM_LOCKED_KERNEL), > only userspace cannot alter it. How about calling it VM_PINNED? That way, we can define Locked - won't be swapped to disk, but can be moved around in memory Pinned - won't be swapped to disk or moved around in memory - 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/