X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fvm%2Fremap_file_pages.txt;h=f609142f406a1a4dcedb335af8e50cb760c14a63;hb=38ca2a4d58bbc45973ee5cd14e4b803ee5ad69f0;hp=560e4363a55d9d37028546afc3f78a3239630d54;hpb=158c12948f3012fbe15f066f308db23502d3db0a;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git diff --git a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt index 560e4363a55d..f609142f406a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt @@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit systems are widely available. -The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation. -The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's -going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is -preserved. +The syscall is deprecated and replaced it with an emulation now. The +emulation creates new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's going to +work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is preserved. One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment for