Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:54:31 -0700


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

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:48:25PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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.

I call that application #2.

-- wli
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