Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/17] mm: sys_remap_anon_pages | Date | Sat, 04 Oct 2014 06:13:27 -0700 |
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Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> writes:
> This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and > without touching the vmas. > > It only works on non shared anonymous pages because those can be > relocated without generating non linear anon_vmas in the rmap code.
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> It is an alternative to mremap.
Why a new syscall? Couldn't mremap do this transparently?
-Andi
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