From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:46:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remap file pages MAP_NONBLOCK fix In-Reply-To: <20030905185056.GA3598@gtf.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian , akpm@osdl.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Or we could just kill remap_file_pages(), because it's a PITA to > maintain and it has maybe 10 legitimate users in the entire world... It has its uses. I just don't think it should support a non-mlocked VMA or deal with files being truncated. The remap_file_pages we have in Taroon is pretty light weight. I hope the implementation in 2.6 will be simplified too ;) -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- 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