Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933989AbXHGOTP (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:19:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755210AbXHGOTA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:19:00 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:34394 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753489AbXHGOTA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:19:00 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <46B87590.60208@t-online.de> References: <46B87590.60208@t-online.de> <23249.1186492623@redhat.com> <46B86FC1.7050601@t-online.de> <46695F6D.5050600@t-online.de> <8772.1186149811@redhat.com> <23350.1186492903@redhat.com> To: Bernd Schmidt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Wu, Bryan" Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Separate out VMAs X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 22.1.50 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <25818.1186495414@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 14 Bernd Schmidt wrote: > This probably wants to be dependent on something like MAP_TRIM_EXCESS. Hmmm... In the interests of not adding more flags, I wonder if mremap() should be used for that, with a global setting for mmaps made by binfmts as they can't really be shrunk afterwards if they're shareable. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/