On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 12:15:57PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 12:03 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > That buffering cannot be done safely currently > > .. again, this is "your semantics" (the (b) in my humbug list), not > necessarily reality for anybody else. Yea that's fair. Except, of course, I maintain that my semantics are important ones. :) > I'm NAK'ing making invasive changes to the VM for something this > specialized. I really believe that the people who have this issue are > *so* few and far between that they can deal with the VM forking and > reseeding issues quite well on their own. Okay, that's fine. I'll see if I can make this work without having to do surgery on mm and introduce a new VM_* flag and such. Hopefully I'll succeed there. Jason