Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)

Jeff Dike
2007-03-07T15:20:06Z

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:52:12PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Well I don't think UML uses nonlinear yet anyway, does it? Can they
> > make do with restricting nonlinear to mlocked vmas, I wonder? Probably
> > not.
>
> I think it does, but lets ask, Jeff?

Nope, UML needs to be able to change permissions as well as locations.

Would be nice, though, there are apparently nice UML speedups with it.

Jeff

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