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SubjectRe: [RFC] invalidate_mmap_range() misses remap_file_pages()-affected targets
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> invalidate_mmap_range(), and hence vmtruncate(), can miss its targets
> due to remap_file_pages()

Please don't. Remap_file_pages() not 100% working the way
a normal mmap() works should be a case of "doctor, it hurts".

Making the VM more complex just to support the (allegedly
low overhead) hack of remap_file_pages() doesn't seem like
a worthwhile tradeoff to me.

In fact, I wouldn't mind if remap_file_pages() was simplified ;)

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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