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> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for following up! -- 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>