From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063FC6B025A for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so62115156wic.1 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com. [209.85.212.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id lr7si1017970wjb.35.2015.09.11.08.16.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so68048751wic.1 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:16:05 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mlock.2: mlock2.2: Add entry to for new mlock2 syscall Message-ID: <20150911151605.GL3417@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1441030820-2960-1-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com> <55F14E05.6020304@suse.cz> <20150911145712.GA3452@akamai.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150911145712.GA3452@akamai.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Eric B Munson Cc: Vlastimil Babka , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Jonathan Corbet , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 11-09-15 10:57:12, Eric B Munson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote: [...] > > Also, what about glibc wrapper for mlock2()? Does it have to come before or > > after the manpage and who gets it in? > > V3 now has an updated version, hopefully mlock2 hits the 4.4 merge > window. > > I don't know about the glibc wrapper, are we expected to write one > ourselves? Will they even take it? They haven't been the most open > minded about taking wrappers for system calls that are unique to Linux > in the past. I do not think we really do care about the glibc wrapper. There are many syscalls which do not have it either (e.g. gettid). But I guess it would be worth noting this in the man page the same way as gettid does. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org