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From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mlockall for PROT_NONE mappings
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:44:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> This is too ugly for words.
> 
> Just make mlockall() ignore any mappings that are not readable.

That is exactly what the patch is doing.

It has just to pass this information down to get_user_pages to make mlock() 
not ignore them too.

-Andi