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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt | 18 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt index 7714f57caad..02b89dcf38a 100644 --- a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt @@ -109,12 +109,18 @@ and it's also much more restricted in the latter case: FURTHER NOTES ON NO-MMU MMAP ============================ - (*) A request for a private mapping of less than a page in size may not return - a page-aligned buffer. This is because the kernel calls kmalloc() to - allocate the buffer, not get_free_page(). - - (*) A list of all the mappings on the system is visible through /proc/maps in - no-MMU mode. + (*) A request for a private mapping of a file may return a buffer that is not + page-aligned. This is because XIP may take place, and the data may not be + paged aligned in the backing store. + + (*) A request for an anonymous mapping will always be page aligned. If + possible the size of the request should be a power of two otherwise some + of the space may be wasted as the kernel must allocate a power-of-2 + granule but will only discard the excess if appropriately configured as + this has an effect on fragmentation. + + (*) A list of all the private copy and anonymous mappings on the system is + visible through /proc/maps in no-MMU mode. (*) A list of all the mappings in use by a process is visible through /proc/<pid>/maps in no-MMU mode. |