Re: anon_vma RFC2

Linus Torvalds
2004-03-14T00:45:23Z

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> linus-unshare-mremap guarantees that a certain physical page will be
> only at a certain virtual address in every mm, so prio_tree taking pgoff
> into account isn't needed there, find_vma is more than enough.

Yes. However, I'd at least personally hope that we don't even need the
find_vma() all the time.

When removing a page using the reverse mapping, there really is very
little reason to even look up the vma, although right now the
"flush_tlb_page()" interface is done for vma only so we'd need to change
that or at least add a "flush_tlb_page_mm(mm, virt)" flusher (and if any
architecture wants to look up the vma, they could do so).

It would be silly to look up the vma if we don't actually need it, and I
don't think we do. It's likely faster to just look up the page tables
directly than to even worry about anything else.

But find_vma() certainly would be sufficient.

Linus