Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware...

[Gleb Natapov]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:11:46PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> In the time since we discussed before, I've rather come full circle
> round to my original position: abandoning such ideas of trying to
> handle it from get_user_pages itself, appreciating the simplicity
> of the original PROT_DONTCOPY idea from you guys; but sticking to my
> initial reaction that this is better done by madvise(MADV_DONTCOPY),
> not by the mmap/mprotect route in Michael's patch.  (I never bought
> the "racy" argument advanced in favour of the mmap flag.)
> 
Excellent! Then DONTCOPY it will be.

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			Gleb.
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