Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:49:49 -0500 | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: mm: convert vma->vm_flags to 64bit |
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On 11/10/2011 4:12 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:22 -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> On 11/9/2011 11:09 PM, Nai Xia wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Did this patch get merged at last, or on this way being merged, or >>> just dropped ? >> >> Dropped. >> Linus said he dislike 64bit enhancement. > > Do you have a pointer ? (And a rationale) > > I still want to put some arch flags in there at some point...
I'm sorry. I had got a machine crash awhile ago and I don't have a past mail. If my remember is correctly, Linus said he worry about an impact against 32bit x86 and he don't think current vm_flags usage is enough efficient.
Maybe we need to ban useless arch specific flags at first.
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