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 <[email protected]> > Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> > Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

