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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"rth@twiddle.net" <rth@twiddle.net>,
	"ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru" <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	"mattst88@gmail.com" <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	"jejb@parisc-linux.org" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	"deller@gmx.de" <deller@gmx.de>,
	"chris@zankel.net" <chris@zankel.net>,
	"linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org" <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	"linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org" <linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Support MADV_FREE for madvise()
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:55:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417485331.2585.26.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE2sS1hDXqLvF9yY5-3d4pmDPiQy8aQ1fYov3_+BKM8uQ3ZSwA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 17:01 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> At present, kernel supports madvise(MADV_FREE), so can benefit to all
> >>> related architectures (can grep MADV_WILLNEED or MADV_REMOVE in "arch/"
> >>> to know about all related architectures).
> >>
> >> A similar patch has been posted a while ago:
> >>
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg81538.html
> >
> > Would it be possible to use the same number everywhere?
> 
> Yes please. It's ridiculous that we still need patches like this.
> 
> I proposed unifying all this two years ago, but didn't follow up.
> 
> From glibc's perspective it would be simpler if we started using the
> same number everywhere.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-api/msg02064.html

Please co-ordinate with Andrew then because he's intent on merging this
patch:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=141747572930808

James



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-01 20:43 [PATCH] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Support MADV_FREE for madvise() Chen Gang
2014-12-01 20:52 ` Max Filippov
2014-12-01 21:35   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-12-01 22:01     ` Carlos O'Donell
2014-12-01 22:01       ` Carlos O'Donell
2014-12-01 22:01       ` Carlos O'Donell
2014-12-02  1:55       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2014-12-02  2:07         ` Chen Gang
2014-12-02  1:56       ` Chen Gang
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2014-12-01 20:43 Chen Gang

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