From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751040AbWCVHX1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:23:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751055AbWCVHX1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:23:27 -0500 Received: from smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.211]:31638 "HELO smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751039AbWCVHX0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:23:26 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=b5iMIvePv+s6UTvWSILMqGd0EXBRxlsIRJX++2XI/pIw75Tk0kaXGPDG4b84LRnAQl3wwPzQEVnsp4zrmkgv7QpOxFfrZxMxTOam199VHTE8HDaYPggCNK52ObCK3uMh6bdzBhVfWt8ggappk6qAkEm2+QdlBbayJ1qNl6MPg3k= ; Message-ID: <4420FB66.3090206@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:23:18 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stone Wang CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo: Wired" References: <441FEFC7.5030109@yahoo.com.au> <442098B6.5000607@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stone Wang wrote: > The name "Wired" could be changed to which one most kids think better > fits the job. > > I choosed "Wired" for: > "Locked" will conflict with PG_locked bit of a pags. > "Pinned" indicates a short-term lock,so not fits the job too. > Err we're going around in circles here. This tangent started because I suggested that you could call them "mlock" or "mlocked". But don't get too hung up on the naming. I pointed out quite a lot of much more fundamental problems. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com