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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/17] mm: sys_remap_anon_pages
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Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> writes:

> This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and
> without touching the vmas.
>
> It only works on non shared anonymous pages because those can be
> relocated without generating non linear anon_vmas in the rmap code.

...

> It is an alternative to mremap.

Why a new syscall? Couldn't mremap do this transparently?

-Andi

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