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, 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>