Ulrich Drepper wrote:
A solution for this problem is a madvise() operation with the following property:- the content of the address range can be discarded - if an access to a page in the range happens in the future it must succeed. The old page content can be provided or a new, empty page can be provided
Doesn't this conflict with disabling overcommit? If the page is guaranteed to be available, obviously it must count as being commited, so this is not equivalent to real freeing. Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
