Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 04:23:37 EST



* Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> After these patches, I don't think there is too much burden. The main
> thing left really is just the objrmap stuff, but that is just handled
> with a minimal 'dumb' algorithm that doesn't cost much.

ok. What do you think about the sys_remap_file_pages_prot() thing that
Paolo has done in a nicely split up form - does that complicate things
in any fundamental way? That is what is useful to UML.

Ingo
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