From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:59:41 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Shared mmaps In-Reply-To: <20010304211053.F1865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/