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

Bill Irwin
2007-03-19T12:05:01Z

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:50:10AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Yes, that should be the case. So would this mean that nonlinear protections
> don't work on regular files? I guess that's OK if Oracle and UML both use
> tmpfs/shm?

Sometimes ramfs is also used in the Oracle case. I presume that's even
simpler than tmpfs. (Hugetlb, while also used in for the same general
buffer pool, is never used in conjunction with remap_file_pages() etc.)

-- wli