Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030196AbWBMV4r (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:56:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964871AbWBMV4r (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:56:47 -0500 Received: from gold.veritas.com ([143.127.12.110]:32382 "EHLO gold.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964870AbWBMV4r (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:56:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:57:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@goblin.wat.veritas.com To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" cc: Linus Torvalds , William Irwin , Roland Dreier , Nick Piggin , Gleb Natapov , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , openib-general@openib.org, Petr Vandrovec , Badari Pulavarty Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK In-Reply-To: <20060213210906.GC13603@mellanox.co.il> Message-ID: References: <20060213154114.GO32041@mellanox.co.il> <20060213210906.GC13603@mellanox.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2006 21:56:46.0574 (UTC) FILETIME=[6242F8E0:01C630E8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 18 On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Like this then? Almost. I would still prefer madvise_vma to allow MADV_DONTFORK on a VM_IO vma, even though it must prohibit MADV_DOFORK there. But if Linus disagrees, of course ignore me. Comments much better, thanks. I didn't get your point about mlock'd memory, but I'm content to believe you're thinking of an issue that hasn't occurred to me. Hugh - 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/