From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:10:40 -0500 From: Jeff Dike Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) Message-ID: <20070307151040.GA2440@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <20070307103842.GD5555@wotan.suse.de> <1173264462.6374.140.camel@twins> <20070307110035.GE5555@wotan.suse.de> <1173268086.6374.157.camel@twins> <20070307121730.GC18704@wotan.suse.de> <1173271286.6374.166.camel@twins> <20070307130851.GE18704@wotan.suse.de> <1173273562.6374.175.camel@twins> <20070307133649.GF18704@wotan.suse.de> <1173275532.6374.183.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1173275532.6374.183.camel@twins> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Nick Piggin , Miklos Szeredi , akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:52:12PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Well I don't think UML uses nonlinear yet anyway, does it? Can they > > make do with restricting nonlinear to mlocked vmas, I wonder? Probably > > not. > > I think it does, but lets ask, Jeff? Nope, UML needs to be able to change permissions as well as locations. Would be nice, though, there are apparently nice UML speedups with it. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org