Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:32:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] 2.5 vm bugfix |
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Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > 2.5.x kernels don't look at the VM_DONTEXPAND flag when merging > multiple vmas into one. Fix below.
There is but one user of VM_DONTEXPAND in the kernel, and that is you ;)
Can you describe exactly why this driver requires DONTEXPAND? ie: how does the driver work, and why is it special?
If there is some alternative way of providing the same behaviour we could remove VM_DONTEXPAND, which would be nice.
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