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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nikolay Igotti <nike@lyola.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memmove syscall
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:23:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040207012319.GG12503@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40231BED.8060100@lyola.com>

Nikolay Igotti wrote:
>       mremap expands (or shrinks) an  existing  memory  mapping,  
> potentially
>       moving  it  at  the same time (controlled by the flags argument 
> and the
>       available virtual address space).
> 
> 
> And this syscall can be only used for realloc() kind of stuff, as you're 
> not allowed to change
> virtual address of some page to desired value,

Have you looked at the MREMAP_FIXED flag?

-- Jamie

      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-07  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-04 12:32 memmove syscall Nikolay Igotti
2004-02-06  3:52 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-06  4:45   ` Nikolay Igotti
2004-02-07  1:23     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]

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