From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kirill Tkhai Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] mm: Add process_vm_mmap() syscall declaration Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 11:29:09 +0300 Message-ID: <4c35e953-5f59-0202-3f75-f9ccf7df798f@virtuozzo.com> References: <155836064844.2441.10911127801797083064.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <155836080726.2441.11153759042802992469.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20190521002827.GA30518@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190521002827.GA30518@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ira Weiny Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, keith.busch@intel.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com, andreyknvl@google.com, arunks@codeaurora.org, vbabka@suse.cz, cl@linux.com, riel@surriel.com, keescook@chromium.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, npiggin@gmail.com, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, shakeelb@google.com, guro@fb.com, aarcange@redhat.com, hughd@google.com, jglisse@redhat.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, jannh@google.com, kilobyte@angband.pl, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi, Ira, On 21.05.2019 03:28, Ira Weiny wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 05:00:07PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote: >> Similar to process_vm_readv() and process_vm_writev(), >> add declarations of a new syscall, which will allow >> to map memory from or to another process. > > Shouldn't this be the last patch in the series so that the syscall is actually > implemented first? It looks like there is no dependencies in the last patch to declarations made in the first patch, so we really can move it. I'll make this after there are accumulated some commentaries about the logic to reduce number of patch series. [...] Thanks, Kirill