Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 8 authors, 2013-03-12

Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: make mlockall preserve flags other than VM_LOCKED in def_flags

From: Rik van Riel <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-22 04:22:06
Also in: lkml

On 12/20/2012 07:49 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
On most architectures, def_flags is either 0 or VM_LOCKED depending on
whether mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) was called. However, this is not an absolute
rule as kvm support on s390 may set the VM_NOHUGEPAGE flag in def_flags.
We don't want mlockall to clear that.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <redacted>

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