Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:20:33 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores... |
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > As opposed to adding special cases to the kernel which are unswappable and > stand to tangle up bits of the generic vfs - eg we would have a vma with > a vm_file but that file would not be in the dcache ?
Why should they be unswappable?
It's the same thing as giving a -1 to mmap. That doesn't make it unswappable.
Linus
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