linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM

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Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 01:42:51 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:28:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:26:51 +0300 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations
> 
> s/Deprecate/remove/ !

Thanks!

> > 
> > Googling didn't reveal some other users of this operation
> > so I think it should be safe to remove this interface.
> 
> It does seem a bit sudden.  We could just add a "this interface is
> scheduled for removal" warning, then delete the code for real later in
> the year. To give people time to migrate or to complain to us.

Yes, I remember this rule of deprecation but taking into account
how special this code is (and I spent significant amount of time
trying to find a real example of its usage outside of criu)
I think it should be safe to simply remove it. Surely I won't
ever do this with some common syscall.