linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove duplicate asm/mman.h files

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909211553000.30561@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, ebmunson@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, rth@...ddle.net,
	ink@...assic.park.msu.ru, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove duplicate asm/mman.h files

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Is it perhaps the case that some UNIX on ia64 does implement MAP_GROWSUP,
> and these numbers in the Linux ia64 mman.h have been chosen to match that
> reference implementation?  Tony will know.  But I wonder if you'd do
> better at least to leave a MAP_GROWSUP comment on that line, so that
> somebody doesn't go and reuse the empty slot later on.
> 

Reserving the bit from future use by adding a comment may be helpful, but 
then let's do it for MAP_GROWSDOWN too.
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