Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:00:23 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: fd_offset is not page aligned |
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>In case I'm not clear: I'm talking about read-only, MAP_DENYWRITE >mappings. There's no coherency issue for these.
If you allow mmap to map at not PAGE_ALIGNED file offset, than you'll end overlapping data in the page cache and you'll lose memory. This happens even with the denywrite private map.
Andrea
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