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Message-ID: <463F5926.6020401@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:51:50 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
CC: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>> It's trivial to merge the MADV_FREE #defines into the kernel
>> though, and aliasing MADV_FREE to MADV_DONTNEED for the time
>> being is a one-liner - just an extra constant into the big
>> switch statement in sys_madvise().
>
> Until the semantics of the implementation is cut into stone by having it
> in the kernel I'll not start using it.
The current MADV_DONTNEED implementation conforms to the
semantics of MADV_FREE :)
With MADV_FREE you can get back either your old data, or
a freshly zeroed out new page. Always getting back the
second alternative is conformant :)
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