Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:07:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM |
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Maybe I'm just taking this out of context, and it's twisting my brain, > but as far as I know, the nonlinear vma's *are* backed by pte_chains.
They are, but IMHO they shouldn't be. The nonlinear vmas are used only for database shared memory segments and other "bypass the VM" applications, so I don't see any reason why we need to complicate things hopelessly in order to deal with corner cases like truncate.
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