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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:44:06 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a
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To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, criu@openvz.org, gdb@sourceware.org, devel@lists.open-mpi.org, rr-dev@mozilla.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>

On Tue,  9 Jan 2018 08:30:49 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> This patches introduces new process_vmsplice system call that combines
> functionality of process_vm_read and vmsplice.

All seems fairly strightforward.  The big question is: do we know that
people will actually use this, and get sufficient value from it to
justify its addition?


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