From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751281AbeDDG7q (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2018 02:59:46 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-f68.google.com ([209.85.215.68]:38025 "EHLO mail-lf0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750915AbeDDG7p (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2018 02:59:45 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4+Su4e2P6PphvyBizzHfjRoyMQqnjosAd8rge85ANqJYbRZTbgm+hdnEAdwK8rJUL0POPc1NA== Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 09:59:42 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Michal Hocko Cc: Yang Shi , LKML , Andrey Vagin , Andrew Morton , Pavel Emelyanov , Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [RFC] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations Message-ID: <20180404065942.GB15783@uranus.lan> References: <20180403223722.GA15783@uranus.lan> <48bcd917-4eb8-9da6-ec4b-e76a654695c4@linux.alibaba.com> <20180404053541.GA6312@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180404053541.GA6312@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 07:35:41AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Or we can simply drop it off because PR_SET_MM_MAP covers all needs, > > > and I would rather prefer to do that asap. > > > > Thanks for making it deprecated. I'd prefer just drop it off if nobody > > objects. The change will get soaked in linux-next for a while , we will know > > if it breaks compatibility (it sounds very unlikely). > > Yeah, let's just drop it and have the patch in linux-next (via mmotm) > for 2 release cycles and see whether somebody complains. > > You can add > Acked-by: Michal Hocko > for such a patch. Sure. Thanks!