On Wed 19-08-15 17:33:45, Eric B Munson wrote: [...] > The group which asked for this feature here > wants the ability to distinguish between LOCKED and LOCKONFAULT regions > and without the VMA flag there isn't a way to do that. Could you be more specific on why this is needed? > Do we know that these last two open flags are needed right now or is > this speculation that they will be and that none of the other VMA flags > can be reclaimed? I do not think they are needed by anybody right now but that is not a reason why it should be used without a really strong justification. If the discoverability is really needed then fair enough but I haven't seen any justification for that yet. -- 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>