linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] ipc/shm: do not check for MAP

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:14:11 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, manfred@...orfullife.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ipc/shm: do not check for MAP_POPULATE

On Thu, 09 Feb 2017, Hugh Dickins wrote:

>I haven't checked, but are you sure that "populated" does nothing
>when the attacher had previously called mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)?

I checked and you are certainly right. Andrew, please do not
consider this patch, it's bogus.

Thanks,
Davidlohr