From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:50:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:50:26 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:23394 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:50:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:50:52 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: "David S. Miller" , David Luyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: /proc//maps growing... Message-ID: <20010806145052.F20837@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <997080081.3938.28.camel@typhaon> <20010806105904.A28792@athlon.random> <15214.24938.681121.837470@pizda.ninka.net> <20010806125705.I15925@athlon.random> <20010807002650.B23937@weta.f00f.org> <20010806143603.C20837@athlon.random> <20010807004510.A23992@weta.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010807004510.A23992@weta.f00f.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:45:10AM +1200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:45:10AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > for anonymous maps, when it can extend the previos map, mmap will do > so --- it happens to occur quite often in practice ah, what an horrible hack, so we just walk the tree _two_ times and we don't even take advantage of that (over)work as we should! Andrea