Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] mm: sys_remap_anon_pages

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Kerrisk
[CC+=linux-api@] Hi Andrea, On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and > without touching the vmas. Please CC linux-api on patches that change the API/ABI. (See https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.htm

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] mm: sys_remap_anon_pages

2014-07-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and without touching the vmas. It only works on non shared anonymous pages because those can be relocated without generating non linear anon_vmas in the rmap code. It is the ideal mechanism to handle userspace page faults. Normally the