Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 13:31:15 EST


On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:51, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> One potential downside of this is that programmers might expect
> mremap(), mprotect() etc. to work on the returned memory at the
> granularity of base-pages. I'm not sure though whether that was part
> of the reason Linus wanted separate syscalls.

The extra syscalls dont change anything. mremap/mprotect still fails in
the same way after you use them

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