Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:31:43 +0300 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V5 1/7] mm: mlock: Refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code |
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:28:39PM -0400, 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> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> > Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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