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

[Bill Irwin]

* 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.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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.

Oracle would love it. You don't want to know how far back I've been
asked to backport that.


-- wli
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