Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory

[Rik van Riel]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > It's trivial to merge the MADV_FREE #defines into the kernel
> > though, and aliasing MADV_FREE to MADV_DONTNEED for the time
> > being is a one-liner - just an extra constant into the big
> > switch statement in sys_madvise().
>
> Until the semantics of the implementation is cut into stone by having it 
> in the kernel I'll not start using it.

The current MADV_DONTNEED implementation conforms to the
semantics of MADV_FREE :)

With MADV_FREE you can get back either your old data, or
a freshly zeroed out new page.  Always getting back the
second alternative is conformant :)

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