Re: [PATCH 10/17] mm: rmap preparation for remap_anon_pages

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Overall this looks a fairly small change to the rmap code, notably
> less intrusive than the nonlinear vmas created by remap_file_pages.

Considering that remap_file_pages() was an unmitigated disaster, and
-mm has a patch to remove it entirely, I'm not at all convinced this
is a good argument.

We thought remap_file_pages() was a good idea, and it really really
really wasn't. Almost nobody used it, why would the anonymous page
case be any different?

            Linus
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