Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM

Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:48:25 +0100


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> but I didn't hear any emulator developer ask for this feature yet

No, but there was a meek request to get writable/read-only protection
working with remap_file_pages, so that a garbage collector can change
protection on individual pages without requiring O(nr_pages) vmas.

Perhaps that should have nothing to do with remap_file_pages, though.

-- Jamie
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