On Wed, 13 May 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:

> From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
> 
> David Rientjes has noticed that MAP_POPULATE wording might promise much
> more than the kernel actually provides and intend to provide. The
> primary usage of the flag is to pre-fault the range. There is no
> guarantee that no major faults will happen later on. The pages might
> have been reclaimed by the time the process tries to access them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>

Thanks for following up!
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