On 01/13/2017 07:29 AM, Rob Gardner wrote: > so perhaps ADI should simply be disallowed for memory mapped to > files, and this particular complication can be avoided. Thoughts? What's a "file" from your perspective? In Linux, shared memory is a file. hugetlbfs is done with files. Many databases mmap() their data into their address space. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html