| From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Date | Wed, 30 May 2012 16:16:26 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet |
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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >> Yes, that's right direction, I think. Currently, shmem_set_policy() can't handle >> nonlinear mapping. > > I've been mulling for some time to just remove non linear mappings. > AFAIK they were only useful on 32bit and are obsolete and could be > emulated with VMAs instead.
I agree. It is only userful on 32bit and current enterprise users don't use 32bit anymore. So, I don't think emulated by vmas cause user visible issue.
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