Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:25:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] madvise/mincore for 2.3.34-1 |
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Chuck Lever wrote: > > 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?
No, there are no bad users (and if there were, I'd prefer breaking them to letting them live). Just make the vm_flags be a full word, I don't know why we tried to save a measly 2 bytes for this.
Linus
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