Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:00:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: msync() bug |
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > As it stands, yes. But shouldn't there be some kind of VM_ASIFRESERVED > vma flag to treat all its pages as if they were reserved, for /dev/mem?
Sure, that is doable. We do in fact already have the flag - you could think of the VM_IO as that kind of flag already. I wouldn't object to that kind of change in the 2.5.x timeframe. We already have vmscan ignoring VM_IO objects, we could do the same to copy_mm() and to mmdrop().
Linus
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