Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754758AbZFEEkr (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:40:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750779AbZFEEkk (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:40:40 -0400 Received: from dallas.jonmasters.org ([72.29.103.172]:42630 "EHLO dallas.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768AbZFEEkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:40:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] - support inheritance of mlocks across fork/exec V2 From: Jon Masters To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , riel@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com In-Reply-To: <1228331069.6693.73.camel@lts-notebook> References: <1227561707.6937.61.camel@lts-notebook> <20081125152651.b4c3c18f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1228331069.6693.73.camel@lts-notebook> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:39:17 -0400 Message-Id: <1244176757.11597.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jonathan@jonmasters.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on dallas.jonmasters.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 14:04 -0500, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > Add support for mlockall(MCL_INHERIT|MCL_RECURSIVE): FWIW, I really liked this patch series. And I think there is still value in a generic "mlock" wrapper utility that I can use. Sure, the later on containers suggestions are all wonderful in theory but I don't see that that went anywhere either (and I disagree that we can't trust people to use this right without doing silly things) - if I'm really right that this got dropped on the floor, can we resurrect it in .31 please? Jon. -- 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/