Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:22:50 +0200 | From | Gleb Natapov <> | Subject | Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware... |
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:11:46PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > In the time since we discussed before, I've rather come full circle > round to my original position: abandoning such ideas of trying to > handle it from get_user_pages itself, appreciating the simplicity > of the original PROT_DONTCOPY idea from you guys; but sticking to my > initial reaction that this is better done by madvise(MADV_DONTCOPY), > not by the mmap/mprotect route in Michael's patch. (I never bought > the "racy" argument advanced in favour of the mmap flag.) > Excellent! Then DONTCOPY it will be.
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