On Tue 28-04-15 11:38:35, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I am still not sure I see the problem here. > > Basically, I absolutely hate the notion of us doing something > unsynchronized, when I can see us undoing a mmap that another thread > is doing. It's wrong. > > You also didn't react to all the *other* things that were wrong in > that patch-set. The games you play with !fatal_signal_pending() etc > are just crazy. I planed to get to those later, because I felt the locks vs. racing mmaps argument was the most important objection. > End result: I absolutely detest the whole thing. I told you what I > consider an acceptable solution instead, that is much simpler and > doesn't have any of the problems of your patchset. I will surely think about those. As I've written in the cover email already, I am fine with patching the man page and be clear about a long term behavior. The primary motivation for this RFC was to start the discussion. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>