Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7

[Dave Hansen]

On 01/13/2017 07:29 AM, Rob Gardner wrote:
> so perhaps ADI should simply be disallowed for memory mapped to
> files, and this particular complication can be avoided. Thoughts?

What's a "file" from your perspective?

In Linux, shared memory is a file.  hugetlbfs is done with files.  Many
databases mmap() their data into their address space.