Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time

[Martin Bligh]

>>>> Yup, basically you're assuming good locality of reference, but it turns
>>>> out that (as davej would say) "userspace sucks".
>>> Well, *most* userspace sucks.  It might still be worthwhile to do this when
>>> userspace is using madvise().
>>
>> Quite possibly true ... something to benchmark.
>
> Well, I guess we need a new binary format that allows one to execute binaries
> in kernel address space with full powers.

Seems ... extreme ;-)
Maybe we just do it if we're in readahead? (or similar)
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