linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Export mlock information via smaps

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Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:25:36 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export mlock information via smaps

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:39 +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages in
> memory or not. And which of the memory regions are locked in memory.
> 
> Add a new field to perms field 'l' to export this information. The information
> exported via maps file is not changed.

I'm worried that your new 'l' flag will fatally surprise some naive
parser of this file.

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