linux-kernel - Re: + mm-remove-struct-mm_struct-exe_file-et-al.patch added to -mm tree

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Date:	Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:57 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, hch@....de
Subject: Re: + mm-remove-struct-mm_struct-exe_file-et-al.patch added to -mm tree

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:

> and, as was mentioned, file is mapped low, so it'd be among the first VMAs.

Not so on NOMMU.  The file is mapped wherever the allocator happens to throw up
a sufficient quantity of contiguous pages.  It may not even be mapped in RAM.

David
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