Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed May 30 2012 - 16:10:39 EST


> Yes, that's right direction, I think. Currently, shmem_set_policy() can't handle
> nonlinear mapping.

I've been mulling for some time to just remove non linear mappings.
AFAIK they were only useful on 32bit and are obsolete and could be
emulated with VMAs instead.

-Andi
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