From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: differences between MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:11:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070301181157.GG3550@implementation.labri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ek36r9vq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Hi,
Eric wrote:
> > We should implement a real MADV_DONTNEED and rename the current one
> > to MADV_FREE, but that's 2.6.17 material.
>
> We definitely need to check this. I am fairly certain I have seen
> this conversation before.
Yes, it was back in 2005:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111996850004771&w=2
Nobody took the time to fix it, I filed bug #6282 on bugzilla.kernel.org
some time ago.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 18:12 UTC|newest]
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2005-11-02 1:15 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_FREE) Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 1:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-02 15:49 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 16:12 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE) Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 19:54 ` New bug in patch and existing Linux code - race with install_page() (was: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE)) Blaisorblade
2005-11-02 20:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 20:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 21:36 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 21:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 22:02 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-12 0:25 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE) Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 0:34 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-12 1:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 4:41 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-01-16 13:06 ` differences between MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED Andrea Arcangeli
2006-01-16 16:02 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2006-01-16 16:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-01-16 17:03 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2006-01-16 17:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-01-16 21:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-17 0:24 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2006-01-17 1:04 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-01-17 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-17 18:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-17 22:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-01 18:11 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2006-01-17 19:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-01-17 1:06 ` Blaisorblade
2006-01-17 1:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-12 0:34 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE) Andrew Morton
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