On Tue, 6 May 2014 17:37:24 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patchset replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on > each remap and remove code to support non-linear mappings. > > Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no legitimate > use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available. > > It's not yet ready to apply. Just to give rough idea of what can we get if > we'll deprecated remap_file_pages(). > > I need to split patches properly and write correct commit messages. And there's > still code to remove. hah. That's bold. It would be great if we can get away with this. Do we have any feeling for who will be impacted by this and how badly? I wonder if we can give people a bit more warning - put a printk() in there immediately, backport it into -stable, wait N months then make the change. -- 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>