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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>