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Commit 6aab341e authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 458af543
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