Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)

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To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 - 5:44 am

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:28:21AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:

Anonymous-only would make it a doorstop for Oracle, since its entire
motive for using it is to window into objects larger than user virtual
address spaces (this likely also applies to UML, though they should
really chime in to confirm). Restrictions to tmpfs and/or ramfs would
likely be liveable, though I suspect some things might want to do it to
shm segments (I'll ask about that one). There's definitely no need for a
persistent backing store for the object to be remapped in Oracle's case,
in any event. It's largely the in-core destination and source of IO, not
something saved on-disk itself.


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[patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:49 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Dave Airlie, (Tue Feb 27, 12:36 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Andrew Morton, (Tue Feb 27, 1:32 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Nick Piggin, (Tue Feb 27, 4:50 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Dave Airlie, (Tue Feb 27, 2:26 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Feb 27, 2:54 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Dave Airlie, (Sun Mar 18, 7:13 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Wed Mar 7, 6:05 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Wed Mar 7, 6:46 am)
[rfc][patch 7/6] mm: merge page_mkwrite, Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 6:30 am)
[RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Mar 7, 12:58 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Bill Irwin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:44 am)
[patch 6/6] mm: remove legacy cruft, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:50 am)
[patch 5/6] mm: merge nopfn into fault, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:50 am)
Re: [patch 5/6] mm: merge nopfn into fault, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 1:13 am)
[patch 2/6] mm: simplify filemap_nopage, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:49 am)