From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.62] Support for remap_page_range in objrmap
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:10:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <178650000.1045782627@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <121000000.1045777999@baldur.austin.ibm.com>
> Here's the fix we discussed for remap_page_range. It sets the anon flag
> for pages in any vma used for nonlinear. It also requires that
> MAP_NONLINEAR be passed in at mmap time to flag the vma.
Using the page based mechanism might also clear up some people's
concerns about small windows onto large shared areas for Oracle,
which will probably be using these nonlinear mappings anyway.
Yes, I'm sure there are other corner cases that need to be addressed
as well ;-)
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 21:53 Dave McCracken
2003-02-20 23:10 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-02-21 3:43 ` Rik van Riel
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