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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:19:47 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Anonymous shared memory (ashmem) subsystem
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:54:34AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>
>
> Recently, Robert Love updated his ashmem patch and posted it here:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/ashmem/
>
> This reminded me that in all the conversations around the Android patches,
> I've not seen any discussion on lkml about the ashmem functionality.
> Coming from Robert, its very clean and self-contained and seems pretty
> interesting. So I wanted to send it out for review and comments.
And utterly stupid, just use tmpfs and /dev/zero for the base functionality.
And the pinning crap really needs a much better rationale.
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