From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:22:19 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:5768 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:22:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20010919.152118.78708122.davem@redhat.com> To: rfuller@nsisoftware.com Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, phillips@bonn-fries.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <878A2048A35CD141AD5FC92C6B776E4907B7A5@xchgind02.nsisw.com> In-Reply-To: <878A2048A35CD141AD5FC92C6B776E4907B7A5@xchgind02.nsisw.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Rob Fuller" Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:21 -0500 I suppose I confused the issue when I offered a supporting argument for reverse mappings. It's not reverse mappings for anonymous pages I'm advocating, but reverse mappings for mapped file data. We already have reverse mappings for files, via the VMA chain off the inode. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com