[$] Not-so-anonymous virtual memory areas

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Computing terminology can be counterintuitive at times, but even a
longtime participant in the industry may have to look twice at the notion
of named anonymous memory. That, however, is just the concept that this
patch set
posted by Suren Baghdasaryan proposes to add. There are, it
seems, developers who find the idea useful enough to not only overcome the
initial cognitive dissonance that comes with it, but also to resurrect an
eight-year-old patch to get it into the kernel.