Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated

2014-06-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Kirill, On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Hi Kirill, >> >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov >> wrote: >> > The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, >> > that is, a mapping in which the pag

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated

2014-06-12 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hi Kirill, > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov > wrote: > > The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, > > that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a > > nonsequential order in memory. The advantag

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated

2014-06-11 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hi Kirill, On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, > that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a > nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using remap_file_pages() > over