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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rewrite mmap_find_vma() to work fine on
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Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 13:34:18 Paul Brook wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > qemu's page table can be incomple if /proc/self/maps is unavailable or
> > host allocating a memory with mmap(), so we can't use it to find free
> > memory area.
>
> Do we really care?

Yes.

> Do such systems exist?=20

Any non-Linux system.

Christoph

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