Re: [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:19:40AM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> From: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 2.6.16-rc3 uses hugetlb on-demand paging, but it doesn?t support hugetlb
> mprotect. My patch against 2.6.16-rc3 enables this capability.

Adding another special case for hugetlb pages sounds rather bad.  Could
you try adding a mrotect vm_area_operation if that works out cleaner?

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