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

Bill Irwin
2007-03-07T09:32:32Z

* Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>> After these patches, I don't think there is too much burden. The main
>> thing left really is just the objrmap stuff, but that is just handled
>> with a minimal 'dumb' algorithm that doesn't cost much.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> ok. What do you think about the sys_remap_file_pages_prot() thing that
> Paolo has done in a nicely split up form - does that complicate things
> in any fundamental way? That is what is useful to UML.

Oracle would love it. You don't want to know how far back I've been
asked to backport that.

-- wli