From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5 vm bugfix
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:32:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030321163223.18d80737.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030321151827.GA9387@bytesex.org>
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 2.5.x kernels don't look at the VM_DONTEXPAND flag when merging
> multiple vmas into one. Fix below.
There is but one user of VM_DONTEXPAND in the kernel, and that is you ;)
Can you describe exactly why this driver requires DONTEXPAND? ie: how does
the driver work, and why is it special?
If there is some alternative way of providing the same behaviour we could
remove VM_DONTEXPAND, which would be nice.
Thanks.
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2003-03-21 15:18 Gerd Knorr
2003-03-22 0:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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