Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:12:30 +0000 (GMT) | From | moreau francis <> | Subject | Re : vm: weird behaviour when munmapping |
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Peter Zijlstra wrote: > No indeed. You seem confused with remaining and new. > > It has one VMA (A) it needs to split that into two pieces, it happens to > do it like (B,A') where A' is the old VMA object with new a start > address, and B is a new VMA object.
Is there any rules to decide which VMA is the new one ?
From what you wrote it seems that we call B the new object because it has a new end address...
From my point of view, I called B the old VMA simply because it's going to be destroyed...
Francis
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