From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrew.c.morrow@gmail.com,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] add MAP_UNLOCKED mmap flag
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:21:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100119132138.473cf073@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100119120712.GM14345@redhat.com>
> > And you want millions of users to have kernels with weird extra functions
> > whole sole value is one test environment you wish to run
> >
> We are talking about 4 lines of code that other people find useful too
> and they commented in this thread. This wouldn't be the first kernel
> feature not used by millions of people.
It wouldn't be the first completely dumb mistake in the kernel either,
but one dumb mistake doesn't argue for including others
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-18 13:37 Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 14:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-18 14:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 14:32 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-18 14:35 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 14:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:01 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 15:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-18 15:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:19 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-18 15:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:41 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-18 15:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 17:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 15:14 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 0:12 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-18 16:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-18 17:08 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 18:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-18 18:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 19:10 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-19 7:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 7:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19 7:52 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 8:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19 8:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 8:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19 10:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 12:48 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-19 13:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19 13:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-20 0:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-19 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-19 12:07 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 13:21 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-01-19 14:07 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-19 14:14 ` Gleb Natapov
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