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From: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re : vm: weird behaviour when munmapping
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:12:30 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061117141230.70698.qmail@web23105.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (raw)

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> No indeed. You seem confused with remaining and new. 
> 
> It has one VMA (A) it needs to split that into two pieces, it happens to
> do it like (B,A') where A' is the old VMA object with new a start
> address, and B is a new VMA object.

Is there any rules to decide which VMA is the new one ? 

>From what you wrote it seems that we call B the new object because
it has a new end address...

>From my point of view, I called B the old VMA simply because it's
going to be destroyed...

Francis





	

	
		
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             reply	other threads:[~2006-11-17 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17 14:12 moreau francis [this message]
2006-11-17 14:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-17 21:01 Francis Moreau
2006-11-18 13:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-20 11:30   ` Francis Moreau
2006-11-20 11:36     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-20 12:20     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-21  8:41       ` Francis Moreau
2006-11-17 13:43 moreau francis
2006-11-17 13:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-17 12:50 moreau francis
2006-11-17 13:05 ` Peter Zijlstra

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