On 08/11/2017 04:06 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > I am sorry to look too insisting here (I have still hard time to reconcile > myself with the madvise (ab)use) but if we in fact want minherit like > interface why don't we simply add minherit and make the code which wants > to use that interface easier to port? Is the only reason that hooking > into madvise is less code? If yes is that a sufficient reason to justify > the (ab)use of madvise? If there is a general consensus on that part I > will shut up and won't object anymore. Arguably MADV_DONTFORK would fit > into minherit API better as well. It does, OpenBSD calls it MAP_INHERIT_NONE. Could you implement MAP_INHERIT_COPY and MAP_INHERIT_SHARE as well? Or is changing from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE and back impossible? Thanks, Florian -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
