Re: [PATCH] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Support MADV_FREE for madvise()

[Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>]

On 12/2/14 06:01, 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
>>

OK, thanks.


>> Would it be possible to use the same number everywhere?
> 

For current patch, I guess, we can use '8' for it, since MADV_FREE in
asm-generic is merged just a few days ago (which is not used by user
mode), and parisc has to use '8'.

And welcome the related member's ideas.


> 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
> 

For me, we can divide it into 2 steps:

 - Let MADV_FREE has the same value (about current patch).

 - Let all shared MADV_* to "asm-generic" (about next patch, although I
   am not quite sure whether it is executable).


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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