Re: [PATCH] Fix mlockall for PROT_NONE mappings

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, here's a new version.
> 
> Still won't work.
> 
> You need to call mlock_fixup() to split the vma properly (it might not 
> cover the whole vma, and we _do_ want to keep track of the VM_LOCKED flag 
> correctly.

I don't think so. mlockall() should never split anything.

mlock may, but I didn't change its behaviour. 

-Andi

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