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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Frederic Rossi (LMC)" <Frederic.Rossi@ericsson.ca>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: freemaps
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:03:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DFD266A.422CB70C@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021216005103.GF2690@holomorphy.com

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:03:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - How does it play with non-linear mappings?
> 
> It doesn't care; they're just vma's parked on a virtual address range
> like the rest of them.
> 

But the searching needs are different.  If someone has a nonlinear mmap
of the 0-1M region of a file and then requests an mmap of the 4-5M region,
that can just be tacked onto the 0-1M mapping's vma (can't it?).
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-16  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-14 22:47 freemaps Frederic Rossi (LMC)
2002-12-15  3:09 ` freemaps Andrew Morton
2002-12-15  8:41   ` freemaps Ingo Molnar
2002-12-15  9:03     ` freemaps Andrew Morton
2002-12-15  9:36       ` freemaps Ingo Molnar
2002-12-16  0:51       ` freemaps William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-16  1:03         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-16  1:09           ` freemaps William Lee Irwin III

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