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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Shared mmaps
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:52:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010305115219.A573@fred.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010304211053.F1865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from matthew@wil.cx on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:10:53PM +0100

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:10:53PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Sparc & IA64 use a flag in the task_struct to indicate that they're trying
> to allocate an mmap which is shared.  That's really ugly, let's just pass
> the flags in to the get_mapped_area function instead.  I had to invent a
> new flag for this because mremap's flags are different to mmap's (bah!)
> 
> Comments?

With some extensions I would also find it useful for x86-64 for the 32bit
mmap emulation (currently it's using a current-> hack)
For that flags would need to be passed to TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.


-Andi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-05 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-04 21:10 Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-05  0:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-05 10:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-03-05 17:50   ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-05 22:52     ` Andi Kleen
2001-03-05  0:20 Matthew Wilcox

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