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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rewrite mmap_find_vma() to work fine on
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Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>

On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 13:34:18 Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > qemu's page table can be incomple if /proc/self/maps is unavailable or
> > > host allocating a memory with mmap(), so we can't use it to find free
> > > memory area.
> >
> > Do we really care?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Do such systems exist?
>
> Any non-Linux system.

This is linux usermode emulation. It only works on linux systems anyway.

Paul