From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: introduce fincore() Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 23:42:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20140602064226.GA31675@infradead.org> References: <20140521193336.5df90456.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1401686699-9723-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <1401686699-9723-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1401686699-9723-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi-PaJj6Psr51x8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Andrew Morton , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Wu Fengguang , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Borislav Petkov , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Johannes Weiner , Rusty Russell , David Miller , Andres Freund , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Please also provide a man page for the system call. I'm also very unhappy about the crazy different interpretation of the return value depending on flags, which probably becomes more obvious if you try to document it. That being said I think fincore is useful, but why not stick to the same simple interface as mincore? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html