Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2019 15:39:10 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged |
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On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 3:16 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > It goes back to forever, it looks like. I can't find a reason.
mincore() was originally added in 2.3.52pre3, it looks like. Around 2000 or so. But sadly before the BK history.
And that comment about
"Later we can get more picky about what "in core" means precisely."
that still exists above mincore_page() goes back to the original patch.
Linus
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