Re: [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations.

[Izik Eidus]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> Izik Eidus wrote:
> > subjects say it all.
>
> Not a very useful commit message.
>
> This makes me wonder, though.
>
> What happens if a user mmaps a 30MB memory region, registers it
> with KSM and then unmaps the middle 10MB?

User cant break 30MB into smaller one.
That mean that when you regisiter memory region that is X mb size, you 
can only remove it (as a whole), or add new region.
This should answer the next question you had about why i have just the 
start address for removing the regions.

> > Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> except for the commit message, Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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