If Andrew is happy with such a long patch name, okay;
but personally I'd prefer brevity to all that detail:
mm: Extend MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to non-anonymous mappings
On Wed, 17 Mar 2021, Brian Geffon wrote:
> Currently MREMAP_DONTUNMAP only accepts private anonymous mappings. This
> change will
On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:41:46 -0700 Brian Geffon wrote:
> Currently MREMAP_DONTUNMAP only accepts private anonymous mappings. This
> change will widen the support to include any mappings which are not
> VM_DONTEXPAND or VM_PFNMAP.
Please update changelog to explain why these two were omitted?
>
Currently MREMAP_DONTUNMAP only accepts private anonymous mappings. This
change will widen the support to include any mappings which are not
VM_DONTEXPAND or VM_PFNMAP. The primary use case is to support
MREMAP_DONTUNMAP on mappings which may have been created from a memfd.
This change will
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