Re: bugs in page colouring code

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jun 14 2012 - 16:58:44 EST


On 06/14/2012 05:57 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> However, I expect that on x86 many applications expect
> MAP_FIXED to just work, and enforcing that would be
> more trouble than it's worth.
>

MAP_FIXED, is well, fixed. It means that performance be screwed, if we
can fulfill the request we MUST do so.

-hpa

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