On Wed, 13 May 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > > David Rientjes has noticed that MAP_POPULATE wording might promise much > more than the kernel actually provides and intend to provide. The > primary usage of the flag is to pre-fault the range. There is no > guarantee that no major faults will happen later on. The pages might > have been reclaimed by the time the process tries to access them. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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