From: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@aria.ncl.cs.columbia.edu>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Kirk True <ktrue@movaris.com>,
Linux Memory Manager List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Differences between VM structs
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:26:50 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0309081425350.25054@aria.ncl.cs.columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030908182138.GH29479@holomorphy.com>
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:26:59AM -0700, Kirk True wrote:
> > 5. Anonymous memory is memory that is *not* backed by a file, such
> > as the stack or heap space, right? And mmap is called when
> > mapping files into memory, right? The why does mmap deal with
> > anonymous memory (sorry, I'm totally confused here)?
>
> mmap() needed very few extensions to handle the anonymous case.
What are these extensions in mmap() that need to handle anonymous pages??
Thanks a lot,
Raghu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-08 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-08 16:26 Kirk True
2003-09-08 18:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-08 17:56 ` Marco Cova
2003-09-08 18:26 ` Raghu R. Arur [this message]
2003-09-08 18:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
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