Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946021AbWBORCK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:02:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946026AbWBORCK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:02:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9883 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946021AbWBORCJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:02:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:01:48 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Roland Dreier , Hugh Dickins , Gleb Natapov , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , openib-general@openib.org, Petr Vandrovec , Badari Pulavarty , Hugh Dickins , Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h In-Reply-To: <20060215151649.GA12090@mellanox.co.il> Message-ID: References: <20060215151649.GA12090@mellanox.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 22 On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > How does the following look (against gc3-git)? NACK! This changes the values, and the values are visible to user space. Different architectures really _do_ have different values, even if (a) it's sad and unnecessary and (b) 99% of all apps will never use these values and thus never care. You've changed MS_INVALIDATE from 2 to 4 here. Linus - 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/