From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48D2C8DD.4040303@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:32:13 -0500 From: Christoph Lameter MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time References: <48D142B2.3040607@goop.org> <48D1625C.7000309@redhat.com> <48D17A93.4000803@goop.org> <48D29AFB.5070409@linux-foundation.org> <48D2A392.6010308@goop.org> <33307c790809181352h14f2cf26kc73de75b939177b5@mail.gmail.com> <48D2BFB8.6010503@redhat.com> <33307c790809181411j41a6fc4ev8560a13ed8661ec2@mail.gmail.com> <48D2C46A.5030702@linux-foundation.org> <33307c790809181421k52ed6a36h9d4ee40d5799a536@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <33307c790809181421k52ed6a36h9d4ee40d5799a536@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin Bligh Cc: Chris Snook , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Nick Piggin , Hugh Dickens , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Avi Kivity , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel List-ID: Martin Bligh wrote: >> Well, I guess we need a new binary format that allows one to execute binaries >> in kernel address space with full powers. > > Seems ... extreme ;-) Well yes .... > Maybe we just do it if we're in readahead? (or similar) If we are in kernel space then the binary can call the readahead function as needed ... ;-O Ok, seriously: Anonymous pages are not subject to readahead so it wont work. -- 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