Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 2004 23:13:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAP_POPULATE prot 0 |
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* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> It seems eccentric to implement MAP_POPULATE only on PROT_NONE > mappings: do_mmap_pgoff is passing down prot, then > sys_remap_file_pages verifies it's not set. I guess that's an > oversight from when we realized that the prot arg to > sys_remap_file_pages was misdesigned.
yeah.
> There's another oddity whose heritage is harder for me to understand, > so please let me leave it to you: sys_remap_file_pages is declared as > asmlinkage in mm/fremap.c, but is the one syscall declared without > asmlinkage in include/linux/syscalls.h.
i think that's just an oversight.
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