From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757160AbYJGVEj (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754213AbYJGVEa (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:04:30 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:42558 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754026AbYJGVEa (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:04:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:10:38 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Hugh Dickins , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH, v3] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED Message-ID: <20081007211038.GQ20740@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1223396117-8118-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <2f11576a0810070931k79eb72dfr838a96650563b93a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0810070931k79eb72dfr838a96650563b93a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Sorry, no. > This description still doesn't explain why this interface is needed. > > The one of the points is this interface is used by another person or not. > You should explain how large this interface benefit has. > > Andi kleen explained this interface _can_ be used another one. > but nobody explain who use it actually. Anyone who doesn't want to use fixed addresses. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:10:38 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH, v3] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED Message-ID: <20081007211038.GQ20740@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1223396117-8118-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <2f11576a0810070931k79eb72dfr838a96650563b93a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0810070931k79eb72dfr838a96650563b93a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Hugh Dickins , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton List-ID: > Sorry, no. > This description still doesn't explain why this interface is needed. > > The one of the points is this interface is used by another person or not. > You should explain how large this interface benefit has. > > Andi kleen explained this interface _can_ be used another one. > but nobody explain who use it actually. Anyone who doesn't want to use fixed addresses. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org