On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:41:04AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > - What's the madvise(addr, length, MADV_VOLATILE)? > > It's a hint that user deliver to kernel so kernel can *discard* > pages in a range anytime. > > - What happens if user access page(ie, virtual address) discarded > by kernel? > > The user can see zero-fill-on-demand pages as if madvise(DONTNEED).
What happened to getting SIGBUS? Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
