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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs private mappings.
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:11:18 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F27FE6.A7E4FD96@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040712001502.GS21066@holomorphy.com

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:59:38PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Hugetlbfs silently coerce private mappings of hugetlb files
> > into shared ones. So private writable mapping has MAP_SHARED
> > semantics. I think, such mappings should be disallowed.
> 
> This probably doesn't break anything worth caring about, but it may
> make people happier to just force MAP_SHARED on.

Yes, it was my initial intent. Andrew Morton pointed out, that
this could break existing applications.

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-12 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-11 12:59 [PATCH] hugetlbfs private mappings Oleg Nesterov
2004-07-12  0:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-12 12:11   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2004-07-12 19:35     ` William Lee Irwin III

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