Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote: > > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > tmpfs doesn't store its stuff in the page cache twice: that's true, > > > and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But tmpfs doesn't contain any > > > support for rom memory: you'd have to copy from rom to tmpfs to use > > > it. > > > > The question is, when you execute a binary on tmpfs, does its code > > segment get mapped directly where it's at in the buffer cache, or does > > it get copied to another page for the executing process? At least, > > assuming this is possible due to the vma and file offsets of the segment > > being aligned. > > Its pages are mapped directly into the executing process, without copying.
Thank GOD! Boy, was I worried there for a second. Now, if there were only an easy way to make tmpfs persistent? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/