Re: No more bits in vm_area_struct's vm_flags.

[Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:48:34PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:34:56 +1000
> > Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> >>>> I have some code in TuxOnIce that needs a bit too (explicitly mark the
> >>>> VMA as needing to be atomically copied, for GEM objects), and am not
> >>>> sure what the canonical way to proceed is. Should a new unsigned long be
> >>>> added? The difficulty I see with that is that my flag was used in
> >>>> shmem_file_setup's flags parameter (drm_gem_object_alloc), so that
> >>>> function would need an extra parameter too..
> >>> Hmm, how about adding vma->vm_flags2 ?
> >> The difficulty there is that some functions pass these flags as arguments.
> >>
> > Ah yes. But I wonder some special flags, which is rarey used, can be moved
> > to vm_flags2...

But please don't call it vm_flags2. I think its better to partition the
existing flags by there purpose somehow hand give the flags fields
appropriate names which express that purpose.

	Joerg