Re: + mm-remove-struct-mm_struct-exe_file-et-al.patch added to -mm tree

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 08:57:04 EST


Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> and, as was mentioned, file is mapped low, so it'd be among the first VMAs.

Not so on NOMMU. The file is mapped wherever the allocator happens to throw up
a sufficient quantity of contiguous pages. It may not even be mapped in RAM.

David
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