On 09/04/2015 01:34 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: ...>>> It will also be very painful to add additional bits. We went through >>> this with the CPU affinity mask, and it still hurts it. Please use a >>> more sensible interface from the start. :) >> >> Any suggestions? > > It's difficult. I don't know what kind of programming model you > expect. Could glibc use these bits for its own implementation? Or > OpenSSL?
Our expectation is that there will be a central "allocator" for these bits for mixed-use, like when two libraries want to control a portion of the address space for their purposes. Applications will also be completely free to implement their own, like with a language runtime. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
