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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Shared mmaps
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:59:41 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103042158430.5591-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010304211053.F1865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Sparc & IA64 use a flag in the task_struct to indicate that they're trying
> to allocate an mmap which is shared.  That's really ugly, let's just pass
> the flags in to the get_mapped_area function instead.  I had to invent a
> 
> Comments?

Looks a lot cleaner than the task->flags hack that sparc is
using at the moment...

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-05  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-04 21:10 Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-05  0:59 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-03-05 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2001-03-05 17:50   ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-05 22:52     ` Andi Kleen
2001-03-05  0:20 Matthew Wilcox

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