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@@ -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