On Friday 12 October 2007 20:50, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 04:14 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Friday 12 October 2007 20:37, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > The pages will still be read-only due to dirty tracking, so the first > > > write will still do page_mkwrite(). > > > > Which can SIGBUS, no? > > Sure, but that is no different than any other mmap'ed write. I'm not > seeing how an mlocked region is special here. Well it is a change in behaviour (admittedly, so was the change to SIGBUS mmaped writes in the first place). It's a matter of semantics I guess. Is the current behaviour actually a _problem_ for anyone? If not, then do we need to change it? I'm not saying it does matter, just that it might matter ;) - 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/
