From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200003241742.MAA02123@ccure.karaya.com> Subject: Re: madvise (MADV_FREE) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:21:22 +0100." <38DB1772.5665EFA2@intermec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:42:18 -0500 From: Jeff Dike Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: lars brinkhoff Cc: lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk, cel@monkey.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > Per-page accessed and dirty information from the hosting kernel would > ease the implementation of a simulated MMU. > Perhaps also the user-mode Linux kernel would benefit, but I'm not > sure. Jeff? The user-mode kernel doesn't expect to get any mm bits from the hosting kernel and I don't see any use for them. It lives in its own happy world keeping track of its own bits. Maybe on arches where the hardware provides those bits and the kernel uses them, but the i386 kernel doesn't. Jeff -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/