Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK

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Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc2/include/asm-x86_64/mman.h
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--- linux-2.6.16-rc2.orig/include/asm-x86_64/mman.h	2006-02-14 01:22:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc2/include/asm-x86_64/mman.h	2006-02-14 01:24:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 #define MADV_WILLNEED	0x3		/* pre-fault pages */
 #define MADV_DONTNEED	0x4		/* discard these pages */
 #define MADV_REMOVE	0x5		/* remove these pages & resources */
+#define MADV_DONTFORK	0x30		/* dont inherit across fork */
+#define MADV_DOFORK	0x31		/* do inherit across fork */

May I ask, what is the rationale for ignoring the apparent conventions
of all architectures? For example parisc, you appear to even go contrary
to the comment.

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