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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
To: jdike@karaya.com (Jeff Dike)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:09:45 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> Even with address overcommit management, I can fault if I touch pages when
> tmpfs is full but the system is not near overcommit.

That is what mmap defines for a file based mapping yes. Thats a case where
there isnt much else you can do
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