linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/9] mm: remove flags argument to mmap

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Message-ID: <50E51BDA.8020102@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:49:14 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
CC:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Jorn_Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] mm: remove flags argument to mmap_region

On 12/20/2012 07:49 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> After the MAP_POPULATE handling has been moved to mmap_region() call sites,
> the only remaining use of the flags argument is to pass the MAP_NORESERVE
> flag. This can be just as easily handled by do_mmap_pgoff(), so do that
> and remove the mmap_region() flags parameter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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