From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:26:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Raghu R. Arur" Subject: Re: Differences between VM structs In-Reply-To: <20030908182138.GH29479@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <3F5CADD3.2070404@movaris.com> <20030908182138.GH29479@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Kirk True , Linux Memory Manager List List-ID: > 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 -- 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