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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:55:20 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> I guess the real question is not whether it's useful, I think it clearly
> is. The question should be: are there real downsides? Does the addition to
> the anon mmap field blow up the size of vma_struct by a pointer, or is
> there still space?

No, it's part of an union of 'struct vma_struct' in the current implementation
so the size doesn't change.

I'd still like to see something that's not restricted to page aligned memory
areas, though.

                                Pekka

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