Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and > without touching the vmas. > > It only works on non shared anonymous pages because those can be > relocated without generating non linear anon_vmas in the rmap code. ... > It is an alternative to mremap. Why a new syscall? Couldn't mremap do this transparently? -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
