From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v3] Support volatile range for anon vma
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:17:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121211071742.GA26598@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121211024104.GA10523@blaptop>
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:41:04AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> - What's the madvise(addr, length, MADV_VOLATILE)?
>
> It's a hint that user deliver to kernel so kernel can *discard*
> pages in a range anytime.
>
> - What happens if user access page(ie, virtual address) discarded
> by kernel?
>
> The user can see zero-fill-on-demand pages as if madvise(DONTNEED).
What happened to getting SIGBUS?
Mike
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 2:34 [RFC v3] Support volatile range for anon vma Minchan Kim
2012-12-11 2:41 ` Minchan Kim
2012-12-11 7:17 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2012-12-11 7:37 ` Minchan Kim
2012-12-11 7:59 ` Mike Hommey
2012-12-11 8:11 ` Minchan Kim
2012-12-11 8:29 ` Mike Hommey
2012-12-11 8:45 ` Minchan Kim
2012-12-12 6:43 ` Wanpeng Li
2012-12-12 6:43 ` Wanpeng Li
2012-12-12 8:17 ` Wanpeng Li
2012-12-12 8:17 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <50c83d9b.49fe2a0a.57ee.ffff90b0SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2012-12-12 8:42 ` Minchan Kim
[not found] ` <50c827cb.ce98320a.7d38.ffffad3fSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2012-12-12 8:15 ` Minchan Kim
2012-12-11 18:45 ` John Stultz
2012-12-11 23:21 ` Minchan Kim
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