Re: memmove syscall

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Nikolay Igotti wrote:

>    Maybe this is kinda crazy (or known) idea, but why don't we create
> syscall allowing large copies by just manipulating MMU page table, i.e.

>    return mmu_remap_pages(src,  dst, size / PAGE_SIZE);

Did you look at mremap(2) ?

Linux has had mremap for a very very long time...

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