On Mon 14-08-17 23:12:22, Dan Williams wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index ff151814a02d..73fdc0ada9ee 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>       struct mm_struct *vm_mm;        /* The address space we belong to. */
>       pgprot_t vm_page_prot;          /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
>       unsigned long vm_flags;         /* Flags, see mm.h. */
> +     unsigned long fs_flags;         /* fs flags, see MAP_DIRECT etc */
>  
>       /*
>        * For areas with an address space and backing store,

Ah, OK, here are VMA flags I was missing in the previous patch :) But why
did you create separate fs_flags field for this? on 64-bit archs there's
still space in vm_flags and frankly I don't see why we should separate
MAP_DIRECT or MAP_SYNC from other flags? After all a difference in these
flags must also prevent VMA merging (which you forgot to handle I think)
and they need to be copied on split (which happens by chance even now).

                                                                Honza
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Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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