Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Esepcially those sigbus in the current api
> would be more expensive than the regular paging internal to the VM and
> besides the signal it would generate flood of syscalls and kind of
> duplication of memory management inside the userspace.
That went away. We now encode the file offset in the unmapped ptes, so the
kernel's fault handler can transparently reestablish the page.
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