On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: > > That seems to rather defeat the point of using a VMA, though.
There never was any point in using a VMA per se. The point was always to just map the damn thing in the user page tables, wasn't it? The vma bit was just an implementation detail. Linus