Re: RFC for new feature to move pages from one vma to another without split

From: Peter Xu
Date: Thu Apr 13 2023 - 11:37:22 EST


On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:10:44AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> So instead, we consider the whole address space as a virtual, anon file,
> starting at offset 0. The pgoff of a VMA is then simply the offset in that
> virtual file (easily computed from the start of the VMA), and VMA merging is
> just the same as for an ordinary file.

Interesting point, thanks!

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Peter Xu