On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 09:48:43AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > Thanks for the feedback! The use case is userspace memory reaping > similar to oom-reaper. Detailed justification is here: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201124053943.1684874-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx Given that this new variant of process_madvise a) does not work on an address range b) is destructive c) doesn't share much code at all with the rest of process_madvise Why not add a proper separate syscall?