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

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.

I agree. It is only userful on 32bit and current enterprise users don't use
32bit anymore. So, I don't think emulated by vmas cause user visible issue.
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