Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:02:01 -0500 (EST) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] madvise/mincore for 2.3.34-1 |
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Chuck Lever wrote: > > > > here's the same patch i posted earlier today, redriven against 2.3.34-pre1 > > to take account of the new system calls added since 2.3.33 was released. > > please apply this to your tree. thanks. > > Why not just add flags to "vma->vm_flags"? > > I don't see why the new "vm_rd_behaviour" thing was added, when it doesn't > really offer anything new.
there's one unused bit left. are there any issues if i expand vm_flags to a full word? is there any code that assumes that vm_page_prot and vm_flags are adjacent in the vma struct, and of a certain size?
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