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Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 10:26:18 -0700 From: Minchan Kim To: Florian Weimer Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Christian Brauner , linux-mm , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, oleksandr@redhat.com, Suren Baghdasaryan , Tim Murray , Sandeep Patil , Sonny Rao , Brian Geffon , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Shakeel Butt , John Dias , Joel Fernandes , Jann Horn , alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com, sj38.park@gmail.com, David Rientjes , Arjun Roy , Linus Torvalds , Vlastimil Babka , Christian Brauner , Daniel Colascione , Jens Axboe , Kirill Tkhai , SeongJae Park , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/3] mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API Message-ID: <20200903172618.GB1959033@google.com> References: <20200901000633.1920247-1-minchan@kernel.org> <20200901000633.1920247-4-minchan@kernel.org> <87blippc7p.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87blippc7p.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C54331803F9AD X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 100.00] X-Rspamd-Server: rspam03 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:46:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Minchan Kim: > > > ssize_t process_madvise(int pidfd, const struct iovec *iovec, > > unsigned long vlen, int advice, unsigned int flags); > > size_t for vlen provides a clearer hint regarding the type of special > treatment needed for ILP32 here (zero extension, not changing the type > to long long). > All existing system calls using iove in Linux uses unsigned long so I want to be consistent with them unless process_madvise need something speicial.