Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:04:21 -0700 | From | Bill Irwin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) |
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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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