linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lazy freeing of memory through MADV

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:15:28 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lazy freeing of memory through MADV_FREE 2/2

Restore MADV_DONTNEED to its original Linux behaviour.  This is still
not the same behaviour as POSIX, but applications may be depending on
the Linux behaviour already. Besides, glibc catches POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED
and makes sure nothing is done...

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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This is to be applied over of the original MADV_FREE patch.
It turns out that the current glibc patch already falls back
to MADV_DONTNEED if it gets an -EINVAL.

View attachment "linux-2.6-madv-dontneed-restore.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1318 bytes)