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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:13:36 +0900
From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] mm: madvise MADV_USERFAULT
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:07:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> MADV_USERFAULT is a new madvise flag that will set VM_USERFAULT in the
> vma flags. Whenever VM_USERFAULT is set in an anonymous vma, if
> userland touches a still unmapped virtual address, a sigbus signal is
> sent instead of allocating a new page. The sigbus signal handler will
> then resolve the page fault in userland by calling the
> remap_anon_pages syscall.

What does "unmapped virtual address" mean in this context?

Mike

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