linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] no ZERO

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Message-ID: <6749.1175724468@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:07:48 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	tee@....com, holt@....com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:48:39 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli said:

> Ok, those cases wanting the same zero page, could be fairly easily
> converted to an mmap over /dev/zero (without having to run 4k large
> mmap syscalls or nonlinear).

"D'oh!" -- H. Simpson.

Ignore my previous note. :)

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