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SubjectRe: anon_vma RFC2


On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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> 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.

Linus
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