Jes Sorensen wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >>No problem, I think you should just stop using the VM_PFNMAP flag then. >>[Linus should jump in here if I'm wrong ;)] > > > I'd have to go back and find the discussion to verify, but if I > remember correctly the conclusion was that I needed to use it in > order to make sure that vm_normal_page() didn't start thinking it was > in fact a real page, ie. VM_PFNMAP + never a COW mapping.. > Oh of course: the primary purpose for VM_PFNMAP is to signal a pfn mapping, strangely enough. The COW facility is additional to that. Sorry. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Mar 18 01:20:06 2006
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