Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged | Date | Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:10:46 +1100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 3:16 PM Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> It goes back to forever, it looks like. I can't find a reason. > > mincore() was originally added in 2.3.52pre3, it looks like. Around > 2000 or so. But sadly before the BK history.
Yeah, it's here in the commit titled "Import 2.3.52pre3" (takes a second or two to load):
https://github.com/mpe/linux-fullhistory/commit/a1bcda3256956318c95c8da8bee09f79190bb034#diff-fd2d793b8b4760b4887c8c7bbb3451d7R1730
But no further detail.
(Instructions for using that tree https://github.com/mpe/linux-fullhistory/wiki)
cheers
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