From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964979AbXBTPRc (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:17:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965021AbXBTPRc (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:17:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:34257 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964979AbXBTPRb (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:17:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:17:30 +0100 From: Nick Piggin To: Stephane Eranian Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] perfmon ia64: fix file/vma lifetime Message-ID: <20070220151730.GC5044@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070220141856.GB31343@wotan.suse.de> <20070220143454.GD30911@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <20070220150844.GB5044@wotan.suse.de> <20070220151408.GF30911@frankl.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070220151408.GF30911@frankl.hpl.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:14:08AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Nick, > > > Not that I've looked at the code, but can I be hopeful that v2.3 > > using the traditional mmap file operation to set up the vma and map > > in pages, rather than the way that v2.0 works? > > > > It does. You need an explicit mmap() call. Good to hear, thanks Stephane.