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Re: freemaps

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:03:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - How does it play with non-linear mappings?
> 
> It doesn't care; they're just vma's parked on a virtual address range
> like the rest of them.
> 

But the searching needs are different.  If someone has a nonlinear mmap
of the 0-1M region of a file and then requests an mmap of the 4-5M region,
that can just be tacked onto the 0-1M mapping's vma (can't it?).
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