Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:48:24 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mark Hemment <> | Subject | Re: do_mmap() |
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It makes sure that locked pages are in core (faulted in, if necessary) - similar code is also in mm/mlock.c.
markhe
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, David L. Oppenheimer wrote: > Does anyone know what the purpose of this piece of code is? (It appears at the > end of do_mmap() in mm/mmap.c) > if (flags & VM_LOCKED) { > unsigned long start = addr; > mm->locked_vm += len >> PAGE_SHIFT; > [...cut...] > }
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