From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK]
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:49:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F2EB15.5080402@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F2E38C.5030602@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> All I'm saying is that we can easily wait a few days until arch
> maintainers have had a chance to comment (you didn't think you
> were missing anything last time, either).
>
> We can afford to be a little bit careful about changing user APIs.
>
If it is a good idea to keep the common MADV_ parameters in synch
over all architectures, why not make 0x00 - 0xff the legacy space,
then 0x100 - 0xfff can be for arch specific parameters, and
0x1000 - ... can be for common/generic parameters?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-15 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-15 6:18 [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK] Nick Piggin
2006-02-15 8:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-02-15 8:17 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-15 8:49 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-02-15 12:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-02-15 10:18 ` Russell King
2006-02-15 12:31 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-15 10:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-02-15 12:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
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