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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:23:19 +0000
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
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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