From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 1/6] mm: mlock: Refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:56:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C36780.5050508@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438184575-10537-2-git-send-email-emunson@akamai.com>
On 07/29/2015 05:42 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> Extending the mlock system call is very difficult because it currently
> does not take a flags argument. A later patch in this set will extend
> mlock to support a middle ground between pages that are locked and
> faulted in immediately and unlocked pages. To pave the way for the new
> system call, the code needs some reorganization so that all the actual
> entry point handles is checking input and translating to VMA flags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-29 15:42 [PATCH V6 0/6] Allow user to request memory to be locked on page fault Eric B Munson
2015-07-29 15:42 ` [PATCH V6 1/6] mm: mlock: Refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code Eric B Munson
2015-08-06 13:56 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2015-07-29 15:42 ` [PATCH V6 2/6] mm: mlock: Add new mlock system call Eric B Munson
2015-08-06 14:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-07-29 15:42 ` [PATCH V6 3/6] mm: Introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT Eric B Munson
2015-08-06 15:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-06 15:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-07 10:33 ` Eric B Munson
2015-08-07 12:34 ` Thierry Reding
2015-07-29 15:42 ` [PATCH V6 4/6] mm: mlock: Add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage Eric B Munson
2015-08-07 11:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-07-29 15:42 ` [PATCH V6 5/6] selftests: vm: Add tests for lock on fault Eric B Munson
2015-07-29 15:42 ` [PATCH V6 6/6] mips: Add entry for new mlock2 syscall Eric B Munson
2015-07-30 14:32 ` Ralf Baechle
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