[PATCH v16 07/11] secretmem: use PMD-size pages to amortize direct map fragmentation

Michal Hocko mhocko at suse.com
Thu Feb 4 08:02:22 EST 2021


On Thu 04-02-21 11:58:55, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:12:22AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > Wrt to the specific syscall, please document why existing interfaces are
> > not a good fit as well. It would be also great to describe interaction
> > with mlock itself (I assume the two to be incompatible - mlock will fail
> > on and mlockall will ignore it).
> 
> The interaction with mlock() belongs more to the man page, but I don't mind
> adding this to changelog as well.

I would expect this to be explicitly handled in the patch - thus the
changelog rationale.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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