On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:07:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > MADV_USERFAULT is a new madvise flag that will set VM_USERFAULT in the > vma flags. Whenever VM_USERFAULT is set in an anonymous vma, if > userland touches a still unmapped virtual address, a sigbus signal is > sent instead of allocating a new page. The sigbus signal handler will > then resolve the page fault in userland by calling the > remap_anon_pages syscall.
What does "unmapped virtual address" mean in this context? Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
