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Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

To: rfuller@nsisoftware.com
Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:21:18 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,phillips@bonn-fries.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,linux-mm@kvack.org
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   I suppose I confused the issue when I offered a supporting argument for
   reverse mappings.  It's not reverse mappings for anonymous pages I'm
   advocating, but reverse mappings for mapped file data.

We already have reverse mappings for files, via the VMA chain off the
inode.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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- RE: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
  - From: "Rob Fuller" <rfuller@nsisoftware.com>

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