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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Pass MAP_FIXED down to get_unmapped_area
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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> Is there any support consideration for nommu arch such as blackfin which
> is in the -mm tree now?
> 
> It is very kind of you to point out some idea about MAP_FIXED for
> Blackfin arch, I will do some help for this.

Right now, my understanding is that nommu archs just reject MAP_FIXED
outright... we might be able to be smarter, especially if we bring a
better infrastructure which I'm still thinking about.

Ben.