Re: Why don't we make mmap MAP_SHARED with /dev/zero possible?

Eric W. Biederman
1999-11-03T19:16:33Z

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Q: Highmem allocation for the page cache.

Note: page_cache_alloc currently doesn't take any parameters.
It should take __GFP_BIGMEM or whatever so we can yes high memory is ok.
Or no.
I'm going to put metadata in this page and high memory is not o.k, too inconvienint.

Eric