From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:12:38 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: missing madvise functionality Message-ID: <20070403211238.GB26860@lazybastard.org> References: <46128051.9000609@redhat.com> <46128CC2.9090809@redhat.com> <20070403172841.GB23689@one.firstfloor.org> <20070403125903.3e8577f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4612B645.7030902@redhat.com> <20070403135154.61e1b5f3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4612C059.8070702@redhat.com> <4612C2B6.3010302@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4612C2B6.3010302@cosmosbay.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton , Ulrich Drepper , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel , Jakub Jelinek , linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins List-ID: On Tue, 3 April 2007 23:10:14 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > mmap()/brk() must give fresh NULL pages, but maybe madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) > can relax this requirement (if the pages were reclaimed, then a page fault > could bring a new page with random content) ...provided that it doesn't leak information from the kernel? JA?rn -- All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- 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