From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:34:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213123437.GF25185@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171213122533.GA2384@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Wed 13-12-17 04:25:33, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:25:48AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I am afraid we can bikeshed this to death and there will still be
> > somebody finding yet another better name. Therefore I've decided to
> > stick with my original MAP_FIXED_SAFE. Why? Well, because it keeps the
> > MAP_FIXED prefix which should be recognized by developers and _SAFE
> > suffix should also be clear that all dangerous side effects of the old
> > MAP_FIXED are gone.
>
> I liked basically every other name suggested more than MAP_FIXED_SAFE.
> "Safe against what?" was an important question.
>
> MAP_AT_ADDR was the best suggestion I saw that wasn't one of mine. Of
> my suggestions, I liked MAP_STATIC the best.
The question is whether you care enough to pursue this further yourself.
Because as I've said I do not want to spend another round discussing the
name. The flag is documented and I believe that the name has some merit.
Disagreeing on naming is the easiest pitfall to block otherwise useful
functionality from being merged. And I am pretty sure there will be
always somebody objecting...
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 9:25 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE Michal Hocko
2017-12-13 9:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20171213092550.2774-2-mhocko-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-13 12:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-13 13:01 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-13 9:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs, elf: drop MAP_FIXED usage from elf_map Michal Hocko
2017-12-16 0:49 ` [2/2] " Andrei Vagin
2017-12-18 9:13 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-18 18:12 ` Andrei Vagin
2017-12-13 9:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] mmap.2: document new MAP_FIXED_SAFE flag Michal Hocko
2017-12-13 9:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] mmap.2: MAP_FIXED updated documentation Michal Hocko
2017-12-13 12:55 ` Pavel Machek
2017-12-13 13:03 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-12-13 13:04 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-13 13:09 ` Pavel Machek
2017-12-13 13:16 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20171213131640.GJ25185-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-13 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2017-12-13 13:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-13 14:40 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-12-13 23:19 ` Kees Cook
[not found] ` <CAGXu5jLqE6cUxk-Girx6PG7upEzz8jmu1OH_3LVC26iJc2vTxQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-14 7:07 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-18 19:12 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2017-12-18 20:19 ` Kees Cook
2017-12-18 20:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
[not found] ` <CAGXu5jJ289R9koVoHmxcvUWr6XHSZR2p0qq3WtpNyN-iNSvrNQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-21 12:38 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-12-21 14:59 ` known bad patch in -mm tree was " Pavel Machek
2017-12-21 15:08 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-21 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2017-12-22 0:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-12-14 2:52 ` Jann Horn
[not found] ` <CAG48ez0JZ3PVW3vgSXDmDijS+a_5bSX9qNuyggnsB6JTSkKngA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-14 5:28 ` John Hubbard
2017-12-14 23:06 ` John Hubbard
[not found] ` <b4fb7b3a-e53e-bf87-53c5-186751a14f4e-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-14 23:10 ` Jann Horn
[not found] ` <20171213092550.2774-1-mhocko-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-13 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-13 12:34 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-12-13 17:13 ` Kees Cook
2017-12-15 9:02 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-12-14 0:32 ` Andrew Morton
2017-12-14 1:35 ` David Goldblatt
2017-12-14 1:42 ` David Goldblatt
2017-12-14 12:44 ` Edward Napierala
2017-12-14 13:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-14 14:54 ` Edward Napierala
2017-12-19 12:40 ` David Laight
2017-12-19 12:46 ` Michal Hocko
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