On 4/22/07, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why isn't MADV_FREE defined to 5 for linux? It's our first free madv value? Also the behaviour should better match the one in solaris or BSD, the last thing we need is slightly different behaviour from operating systems supporting this for ages.
The behavior should indeed be identical. Both implementations restrict MADV_FREE to work on anonymous memory and it is unspecified whether a renewed access yields to a zerod page being created or whether the old content is still there. So, just use 0x5 for both the Linux and Solaris version on sparc. - 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/
