Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: page->offset & PAGE_MASK | From | Peter Moulder <> | Date | 02 Feb 1998 12:59:58 +1100 |
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chip@atlantic.net writes:
> Granted that there are some tricks played with offsets in swap areas. > But excluding swap tricks, is there any time when page->offset is not > a multiple of PAGE_SIZE?
I guess it depends on where the page was created. If you mmap a file (MMAP_PRIVATE, read-only) then you can get any block-aligned offset. See generic_file_mmap().
pjm.
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