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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@...oo.fr> To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re : vm: weird behaviour when munmapping Peter Zijlstra wrote: > No indeed. You seem confused with remaining and new. > > It has one VMA (A) it needs to split that into two pieces, it happens to > do it like (B,A') where A' is the old VMA object with new a start > address, and B is a new VMA object. Is there any rules to decide which VMA is the new one ? >From what you wrote it seems that we call B the new object because it has a new end address... >From my point of view, I called B the old VMA simply because it's going to be destroyed... Francis ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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