From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/8981 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH V1] Add mlock2 syscall wrapper Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:02:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20151210170203.GG23362@port70.net> References: <573A4C00-DD93-4023-BEA5-AE4DA2F0EA7E@akamai.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449766941 26884 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2015 17:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:02:21 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-8994-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Dec 10 18:02:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a74bj-00057r-Nf for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:02:19 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 7561 invoked by uid 550); 10 Dec 2015 17:02:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 7541 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2015 17:02:17 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <573A4C00-DD93-4023-BEA5-AE4DA2F0EA7E@akamai.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:8981 Archived-At: * Tottenham, Max [2015-12-10 16:49:44 +0000]: > The mlock2 syscall has been accepted upstream for kernel v4.4. This > patch adds a simple syscall wrapper to libc for x86_64 and i386. > v4.4 is not yet tagged and i've seen new syscalls reverted before release previously because of fundamental design flaws, so i think we should wait until v4.4 is out. on that note, some v4.0, v4.1, v4.2 and v4.3 patches are still pending: http://port70.net/~nsz/musl/linux41/ http://port70.net/~nsz/musl/linux42/ http://port70.net/~nsz/musl/linux43/