[PATCH] make zone collector work without mmap

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Fri May 7 20:06:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:17:15PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This patch augments the zone collector with the page groups
> functionality in ggc-page.c.  If I understood correctly, the
> zone collector is going to become the default one day, so it
> needs to work without mmap.

No.  One day the zone collector will be generational, and so
not only requrire mmap but also mprotect.  The existing ggc-page
will not go away.


r~



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