linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM

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Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2018 12:24:33 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations

Hi,

On 04/04/2018 11:55 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> ---
>  kernel/sys.c |  146 -----------------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-ml.git/kernel/sys.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-ml.git.orig/kernel/sys.c
> +++ linux-ml.git/kernel/sys.c

> +	pr_warn_once("Non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations are deprecated\n");
> +	return -EINVAL;
>  }

I'm not against removing such functionality, but I think that it's more than
"deprecated."  It's gone.

-- 
~Randy