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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: + mm-remove-struct-mm_struct-exe_file-et-al.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22191.1238590557@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090401011344.GB22398@x200.localdomain>

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> and, as was mentioned, file is mapped low, so it'd be among the first VMAs.

Not so on NOMMU.  The file is mapped wherever the allocator happens to throw up
a sufficient quantity of contiguous pages.  It may not even be mapped in RAM.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200903302344.n2UNi3xd027136@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-31 14:40 ` + mm-remove-struct-mm_struct-exe_file-et-al.patch added to -mm tree Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-01  0:32   ` Matt Helsley
2009-04-01  1:13     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-01 12:55       ` David Howells [this message]
2009-04-01  1:40     ` Oleg Nesterov

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