Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 2015 17:13:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mmap2: clarify MAP_POPULATE |
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On Wed, 13 May 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> > > David Rientjes has noticed that MAP_POPULATE wording might promise much > more than the kernel actually provides and intend to provide. The > primary usage of the flag is to pre-fault the range. There is no > guarantee that no major faults will happen later on. The pages might > have been reclaimed by the time the process tries to access them. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thanks for following up!
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