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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:26:07AM -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Programs using /proc/kpageflags need to know about the various flags.  The
> <linux/kernel-page-flags.h> provides them and the comments in the file
> indicate that it is supposed to be used by user-level code.  But the file
> is not installed.
> 
> The patch below installs the headers and marks the unstable flags as
> out-of-bounds.

I don't think this is a good idea at all.  Let's shoot the person who
added that braindead interface ASAP, and replace it with one printing
the flags in ASCII format.