Re: [PATCH v17 1/7] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)

On Tue 03-02-15 17:39:24, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
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If I'm reading the conversation right, the initially proposed text 
was from the BSD man page (which would be okay), but most of the 
text above seems  to have come straight from the page here:
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?madvise+3

Right?

Unfortunately, I don't think we can use that text. It's from the 
Solaris man page as far as I can tell, and I doubt that it's 
under a license that we can use.

Ohh, I wasn't aware of that restriction and didn't notice anything at
the man page nor http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi.
But you are definitely right that it would be better to not use this
source. Sorry about that, I should have noticed that myself.

If that's the case, we need to go back and come up with an
original text. It might draw inspiration from the Solaris page,
and take actual text from the BSD page (which is under a free
license), and it might also draw inspiration from Jon Corbet's 
description at http://lwn.net/Articles/590991/. 

Could you take another shot this please!

Minchan is obviously working on one and I will review it once he is done
with it.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs