Re: [PATCH] rmap 18 i_mmap_nonlinear

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 01:10, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> That's right, arm and parisc do handle them differently: currently
> arm ignores i_mmap (and I think rmk was wondering a few months ago
> whether that's actually correct, given that MAP_SHARED mappings
> which can never become writable go in there - and that surprise is
> itself a very good reason for combining them), and parisc... ah,
> what it does in Linus' tree at present is about the same for both,
> but there are some changes on the way.

Actually, as I said before, parisc is reworking the cache flushing stuff
in our tree.  As things currently stand we've altered our map allocation
so that we now treat i_mmap no differently from i_mmap_shared, so we'd
be fine with merging them.

James


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