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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:16:39 +1000 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Andres Freund <andres@...quadrant.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] define PAGECACHE_TAG_* as enumeration under include/uapi On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 05:52:12PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > We need the pagecache tags to be exported to userspace later in this > series for fincore(2), so this patch moves the definition to the new > include file for preparation. We also use the number of pagecache tags, > so this patch also adds it. > > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> NACK. The radix tree tags are deeply internal implementation details. They are an artifact of the current mark-and-sweep writeback algorithm, and as such should never, ever be exposed to userspace, let alone fixed in an ABI we need to support forever more. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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