Re: [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 12:00:05 EST




On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> How does the following look (against gc3-git)?

NACK!

This changes the values, and the values are visible to user space.

Different architectures really _do_ have different values, even if (a)
it's sad and unnecessary and (b) 99% of all apps will never use these
values and thus never care.

You've changed MS_INVALIDATE from 2 to 4 here.

Linus
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