From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:04:21 -0700 From: Bill Irwin Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) Message-ID: <20070319120421.GZ18774@holomorphy.com> References: <20070221023735.6306.83373.sendpatchset@linux.site> <200703130001.13467.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20070313011904.GA2746@wotan.suse.de> <200703171317.01074.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20070318025010.GA1671@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070318025010.GA1671@wotan.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Blaisorblade , Bill Irwin , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:50:10AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Yes, that should be the case. So would this mean that nonlinear protections > don't work on regular files? I guess that's OK if Oracle and UML both use > tmpfs/shm? Sometimes ramfs is also used in the Oracle case. I presume that's even simpler than tmpfs. (Hugetlb, while also used in for the same general buffer pool, is never used in conjunction with remap_file_pages() etc.) -- wli -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org