Re: [PATCH] Fix mlockall for PROT_NONE mappings

[Linus Torvalds]

On 9 Oct 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Ok. But what is with mappings that have MAY_READ not set ?
> [not 100% this cannot happen]

Well, PROT_NONE will not have MAY_READ set, and no, they won't get locked 
into memory.

But neither did they get locked in before either, so it's not like it's a 
new issue. Now we'd just ignore them nicely rather than abort the 
lockall(). Hmm?

		Linus

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