Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:58:42 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h |
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:26:07AM -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Programs using /proc/kpageflags need to know about the various flags. The > <linux/kernel-page-flags.h> provides them and the comments in the file > indicate that it is supposed to be used by user-level code. But the file > is not installed. > > The patch below installs the headers and marks the unstable flags as > out-of-bounds.
I don't think this is a good idea at all. Let's shoot the person who added that braindead interface ASAP, and replace it with one printing the flags in ASCII format.
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