Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764766AbZDAM5E (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:57:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761587AbZDAM4q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:56:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:33909 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762559AbZDAM4p (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:56:45 -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: <20090401011344.GB22398@x200.localdomain> References: <20090401011344.GB22398@x200.localdomain> <200903302344.n2UNi3xd027136@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20090331144051.GA3951@redhat.com> <20090401003223.GH29821@us.ibm.com> To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Matt Helsley , Oleg Nesterov , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, hch@lst.de Subject: Re: + mm-remove-struct-mm_struct-exe_file-et-al.patch added to -mm tree Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:57 +0100 Message-ID: <22191.1238590557@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 535 Lines: 13 Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > and, as was mentioned, file is mapped low, so it'd be among the first VMAs. Not so on NOMMU. The file is mapped wherever the allocator happens to throw up a sufficient quantity of contiguous pages. It may not even be mapped in RAM. 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/