Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751916Ab2EHJUM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2012 05:20:12 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:55708 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751253Ab2EHJUK (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2012 05:20:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB98269045D63B3@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> References: <20120501132409.GA22894@lizard> <20120501132620.GC24226@lizard> <4FA35A85.4070804@kernel.org> <20120504073810.GA25175@lizard> <20120507121527.GA19526@lizard> <4FA82056.2070706@gmail.com> <4FA8D046.7000808@gmail.com> <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB98269045D63B3@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:19:57 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7vsDV4qznuUp8ELaOP7rYwPvt7E Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vmevent: Implement special low-memory attribute From: Pekka Enberg To: leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com Cc: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, anton.vorontsov@linaro.org, minchan@kernel.org, john.stultz@linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 12 On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:15 PM, wrote: > I am tracking conversation with quite low understanding how it will be useful for > practical needs because user-space developers in 80% cases needs to track > simply dirty memory changes i.e. modified pages which cannot be dropped. The point is to support those cases in such a way that works sanely across different architectures and configurations. -- 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/