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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:13:34 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> the attached patch (ontop of 2.5.44-mm2) implements generic (swappable!)
> nonlinear mappings and sys_remap_file_pages() support. Ie. no more
> MAP_LOCKED restrictions and strange pagefault semantics.

The code looks sane, but like Christoph, I'm curious why
we need it.

Rik
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