Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] mlock/stack guard interaction fixup | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:53:41 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:34 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's also > dubious as a way to pin particular pages in the page tables, because > it's not necessarily something that the semantics guarantee > (historically mlock just guarantees that they won't be swapped out, > not that they will necessarily maintain some particular mapping).
Quite so, and esp. now that page migration gets used more with all that memory compaction stuff that got merged.
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