Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:15:04 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: anon_vma RFC2 |
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > find_vma() is often necessary to determine whether the page is mlock()'d. > In schemes where mm's that may not map the page appear in searches, it > may also be necessary to determine if there's even a vma covering the > area at all or otherwise a normal vma, since pagetables outside normal > vmas may very well not be understood by the core (e.g. hugetlb).
Both excellent points. I guess we'll need the extra few cache misses. Dang.
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