From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751970Ab1GSCT4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:19:56 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:46391 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751029Ab1GSCTz (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:19:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:19:47 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: John Stultz Cc: LKML , Robert Love , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Eric Anholt , Jesse Barnes Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Anonymous shared memory (ashmem) subsystem Message-ID: <20110719021947.GA16986@infradead.org> References: <1311015274-28650-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1311015274-28650-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:54:34AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > From: Robert Love > > Recently, Robert Love updated his ashmem patch and posted it here: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/ashmem/ > > This reminded me that in all the conversations around the Android patches, > I've not seen any discussion on lkml about the ashmem functionality. > Coming from Robert, its very clean and self-contained and seems pretty > interesting. So I wanted to send it out for review and comments. And utterly stupid, just use tmpfs and /dev/zero for the base functionality. And the pinning crap really needs a much better rationale.