linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:38:57 +0800
From:	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com>
To:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
Cc:	Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@...nline.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"Wu, Bryan" <Bryan.Wu@...log.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 19:26 -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> On Fri 8 Jun 2007 09:53, Bernd Schmidt pondered:
> > Here's a patch to move nommu mmap/munmap ever so slightly closer to mmu
> > behaviour.  The motivation for this is to be able to deselect uClibc's
> > UCLIBC_UCLINUX_BROKEN_MUNMAP config option, which speeds up malloc a
> > fair bit.  I'm interested in comments whether this is a good direction
> > to go.  The patch is against Linus' tree as of a few minutes ago.
> 
> I'm assuming that since no one had any large objections, that this is OK, and 
> we should send to Andrew to live in -mm for awhile?
> 
> -Robin

Yes, IMO it is fine for kernel and uclibc. Is there any comments from
David and Greg?


Thanks
- Bryan
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