Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:13:34 -0200 (BRST)


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> the attached patch (ontop of 2.5.44-mm2) implements generic (swappable!)
> nonlinear mappings and sys_remap_file_pages() support. Ie. no more
> MAP_LOCKED restrictions and strange pagefault semantics.

The code looks sane, but like Christoph, I'm curious why
we need it.

Rik

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