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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores...


    On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
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    > 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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