From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:44:40 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remap file pages MAP_NONBLOCK fix Message-ID: <202200000.1062791080@flay> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel , Jeff Garzik Cc: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian , akpm@osdl.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >> Or we could just kill remap_file_pages(), because it's a PITA to >> maintain and it has maybe 10 legitimate users in the entire world... > > It has its uses. I just don't think it should support > a non-mlocked VMA or deal with files being truncated. > > The remap_file_pages we have in Taroon is pretty light > weight. I hope the implementation in 2.6 will be > simplified too ;) We did actually agree to do this at Kernel Summit too .... M. -- 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: aart@kvack.org