Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: introduce MAP_VALIDATE a mechanism for adding new mmap flags
From: Christoph Hellwig <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-17 17:39:45
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:44:14PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
So it wasn't all that easy, and Linus declined to take it. I think we should add a new ->mmap_validate() file operation and save the tree-wide cleanup until later.
Note that we already have a mmap_capabilities callout for nommu, I wonder if we could generalize that.