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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:44:59 -0800
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v4
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:20:26PM -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> >> please do as you like.
>> >
>> > So it should be something like below I think...
>>
>> Looks ok this version to me. So, if you fix other developers pointed
>> issue, I'll ack this.
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric, so mm/ would be fine or I still should move it to kernel/
> instead? I've addressed other issues I hope.
The world won't fall apart if the code lands in mm. I have a strong
preference for kernel/. I just don't see anything at all memory
management like about that code. Even the fact that you are
comparing pointers is an implementation detail.
Eric
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