Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK

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Quoting r. Roland Dreier <[email protected]>:
> Michael, what led you to choose 0x30 and 0x31 for the two new values?
> It does seem that keeping them uniform across architectures is a
> reasonable thing to do, but as far as I can tell the values 9 and 10
> are unused on all architectures, and have the added merit of not
> falling in the parisc reserved range.

No particular reason - I just selected values away from the rest of pack.
Lets go ahead and change them.
 
> Do we still have a chance to change this?
So, any value consistent across architectures will do.

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
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