Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:21:13 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM |
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:54:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I call that application #2.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:33:28PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > maybe I'm missing something but protections have nothing to do with > remap_file_pages IMHO. That's all about teaching the swap code to > reserve more bits in the swap entry and to store the protections there > and possibly teaching the page fault not to get confused. It might > prefer to use the populate callback too to avoid specializing the > pte_none case, but I think the syscall should be different, and it > shouldn't have anything to do with the nonlinearity (nor with rmap).
It's obvious what to do about protections.
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