Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com> writes: > This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and > without touching the vmas. > > It only works on non shared anonymous pages because those can be > relocated without generating non linear anon_vmas in the rmap code.
... > It is an alternative to mremap. Why a new syscall? Couldn't mremap do this transparently? -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/
