On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:58:25AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 01-12-14 17:58:01, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > The only way a VMA can have shared and writable semantics is with a > > backing file. > OK, one always learns :) After some digging I found that MAP_SHARED | > MAP_ANONYMOUS mappings are in fact mappings of a temporary file in tmpfs. > It would be worth to mention this in the changelog I believe. Otherwise > feel free to add: > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Thanks, Jan. I updated the changelog to read: Shared anonymous mmaps are implemented with shmem files, so all VMAs with shared writable semantics also have an underlying backing file. -- 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/
