On Thu 18-10-18 09:00:31, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 17-10-18 12:59:18, David Rientjes wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > Do you know of any other userspace except your usecase? Is there > > > anything fundamental that would prevent a proper API adoption for you? > > > > > > > Yes, it would require us to go back in time and build patched binaries. > > I read that as there is a fundamental problem to update existing > binaries. If that is the case then there surely is no way around it > and another sad page in the screwed up APIs book we provide. > > But I was under impression that the SW stack which actually does the > monitoring is under your controll. Moreover I was under impression that > you do not use the current vanilla kernel so there is no need for an > immediate change on your end. It is trivial to come up with a backward > compatible way to check for the new flag (if it is not present then > fallback to vma flags). > > I am sorry for pushing here but if this is just a matter of a _single_ > user which _can_ be fixed with a reasonable effort then I would love to > see the future api unscrewed. ping -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
