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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -0800 |
commit | 6aab341e0a28aff100a09831c5300a2994b8b986 (patch) | |
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mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic
This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a
VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.
Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing
mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.
Sparc update from David in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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