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    [PATCH] fix madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) for nonlinear vmas · d614d315
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    
    Jamie points out that madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) should unmap pages from a
    nonlinear area in such a way that the nonlinear offsets are preserved if the
    pages do turn out to be needed later after all, instead of reverting them to
    linearity: needs to pass down a zap_details block.
    
    (But this still leaves mincore unaware of nonlinear vmas: bigger job.)
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