Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rmap 18 i_mmap_nonlinear | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | 29 Apr 2004 08:43:35 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 01:10, Hugh Dickins wrote: > That's right, arm and parisc do handle them differently: currently > arm ignores i_mmap (and I think rmk was wondering a few months ago > whether that's actually correct, given that MAP_SHARED mappings > which can never become writable go in there - and that surprise is > itself a very good reason for combining them), and parisc... ah, > what it does in Linus' tree at present is about the same for both, > but there are some changes on the way.
Actually, as I said before, parisc is reworking the cache flushing stuff in our tree. As things currently stand we've altered our map allocation so that we now treat i_mmap no differently from i_mmap_shared, so we'd be fine with merging them.
James
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