Re: RFC: COW for hugepages

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:00:43AM +0200, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> David,
> 
> Why not just add a flag for a VMA telling if you want / do not want to
> copy it on "fork()" ? E.g.:
> 
> dup_mmap():
> 
> 	for (= current->mm->mmap ; mpnt ; mpnt = mpnt->vm_next) {
> 
> 		if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB_DONT_COPY)
> 			<do nothing>
> 	}
> 

Um.. why would that be useful?

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