Re: [PATCH] madvise/mincore for 2.3.34-1

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:02:01 -0500 (EST)

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?

- Chuck Lever

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