Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:14:02 +0200 | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] msync: support syncing a small part of the file |
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Il 22/06/2012 23:12, Andrew Morton ha scritto: > Please recall my thus-far-utterly-and-irritatingly-ignored comments > about nonlinear mappings. Presently an msync() on a nonlinear mapping > will work correctly, because we sync the whole file, yes? And with > this change, we will no longer sync all the pages which were covered by > the affected memory range. Thus breaking the syscall?
The comment was not ignored, it was missed altogether, and you're completely right.
Paolo
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