Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932623AbXH3RHV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:07:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758332AbXH3RHK (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:07:10 -0400 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:39840 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755221AbXH3RHJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:07:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:07:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Clemens Kolbitsch cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Forbid deletion of memory mappings In-Reply-To: <200708301844.10532.clemens.kol@gmx.at> Message-ID: References: <200708301844.10532.clemens.kol@gmx.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 20 On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Clemens Kolbitsch wrote: > It all works perfectly well (creating & deleting the additional > mappings), however, when the kernel feels like it needs to allocate a > mapping in user-space it sometimes deletes my mapping and overwrites it > with the new one, although there is plenty of free memory at some other > location. Hi Clemens, what do you mean by "overwrites it"? It just probably merges your vma with the newly created one, right? -- Jiri Kosina - 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/