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SubjectRe: mm: convert vma->vm_flags to 64bit
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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