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SubjectRe: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:50:10AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Yes, that should be the case. So would this mean that nonlinear protections
> don't work on regular files? I guess that's OK if Oracle and UML both use
> tmpfs/shm?

Sometimes ramfs is also used in the Oracle case. I presume that's even
simpler than tmpfs. (Hugetlb, while also used in for the same general
buffer pool, is never used in conjunction with remap_file_pages() etc.)


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