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SubjectRe: No more bits in vm_area_struct's vm_flags.
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:15:18 +1000
Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> With the addition of the VM_MERGEABLE flag to vm_flags post-2.6.31, the
> last bit in vm_flags has been used.
>

Wow...that's bad.



> I have some code in TuxOnIce that needs a bit too (explicitly mark the
> VMA as needing to be atomically copied, for GEM objects), and am not
> sure what the canonical way to proceed is. Should a new unsigned long be
> added? The difficulty I see with that is that my flag was used in
> shmem_file_setup's flags parameter (drm_gem_object_alloc), so that
> function would need an extra parameter too..
>

Hmm, how about adding vma->vm_flags2 ?

Thanks,
-Kame


> Regards,
>
> Nigel
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