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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce vma flag VM_ARCH_1
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:25:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333232714.30734.6.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120331092910.19920.29396.stgit@zurg>

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 13:29 +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This patch shuffles some bits in vma->vm_flags
> 
> before patch:
> 
>         0x00000200      0x01000000      0x20000000      0x40000000
> x86     VM_NOHUGEPAGE   VM_HUGEPAGE     -               VM_PAT
> powerpc -               -               VM_SAO          -
> parisc  VM_GROWSUP      -               -               -
> ia64    VM_GROWSUP      -               -               -
> nommu   -               VM_MAPPED_COPY  -               -
> others  -               -               -               -
> 
> after patch:
> 
>         0x00000200      0x01000000      0x20000000      0x40000000
> x86     -               VM_PAT          VM_HUGEPAGE     VM_NOHUGEPAGE
> powerpc -               VM_SAO          -               -
> parisc  -               VM_GROWSUP      -               -
> ia64    -               VM_GROWSUP      -               -
> nommu   -               VM_MAPPED_COPY  -               -
> others  -               VM_ARCH_1       -               -
> 
> And voila! One completely free bit.

Great :-) Let me know when you free VM_ARCH_2 as well as I have good use
for it too :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-31 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-31  9:25 [PATCH 0/7] mm: vma->vm_flags diet Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm, x86, PAT: rework linear pfn-mmap tracking Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31 17:09   ` [PATCH 1/7 v2] " Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-03  0:46     ` [x86 PAT PATCH 0/2] x86 PAT vm_flag code refactoring Suresh Siddha
2012-04-03  0:46       ` [x86 PAT PATCH 1/2] x86, pat: remove the dependency on 'vm_pgoff' in track/untrack pfn vma routines Suresh Siddha
2012-04-03  5:37         ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-03 23:31           ` Suresh Siddha
2012-04-04  4:43             ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-05 11:56             ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-06  0:01               ` [v3 VM_PAT PATCH 0/3] x86 VM_PAT series Suresh Siddha
2012-04-06  0:01                 ` [v3 VM_PAT PATCH 1/3] x86, pat: remove the dependency on 'vm_pgoff' in track/untrack pfn vma routines Suresh Siddha
2012-04-06  0:01                 ` [v3 VM_PAT PATCH 2/3] x86, pat: separate the pfn attribute tracking for remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn Suresh Siddha
2012-04-06  0:01                 ` [v3 VM_PAT PATCH 3/3] mm, x86, PAT: rework linear pfn-mmap tracking Suresh Siddha
2012-04-03  0:46       ` [x86 PAT PATCH 2/2] " Suresh Siddha
2012-04-03  5:48         ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-03  5:55           ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-03  6:03       ` [x86 PAT PATCH 0/2] x86 PAT vm_flag code refactoring Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-03 23:14         ` Suresh Siddha
2012-04-04  4:40           ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce vma flag VM_ARCH_1 Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31 22:25   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31 17:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm: kill vma flag VM_INSERTPAGE Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm, drm/udl: fixup vma flags on mmap Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: kill vma flag VM_EXECUTABLE Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31 20:13   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-31 20:39     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-02  9:46       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-02  9:54         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-02 10:13           ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-02 14:48         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-02 16:02           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-02 16:19           ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-02 16:27             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-02 17:14               ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-02 18:05                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-02 23:04     ` Matt Helsley
2012-04-03  5:10       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-03 18:16         ` Matt Helsley
2012-04-03 19:32           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-05 20:29             ` Matt Helsley
2012-04-05 20:53               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-05 21:04               ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-05 21:44                 ` Matt Helsley
2012-04-05 21:55                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-06  4:36                     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-02 23:18   ` Matt Helsley
2012-04-03  5:06     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-06 22:48       ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm: move madvise vma flags to the end Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-31 14:06 ` [PATCH 0/7] mm: vma->vm_flags diet Andi Kleen

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