Re: madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 13:58:45 EST


Quoting r. Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Add madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited across fork.
> > Useful e.g. for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these pages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good to me, Michael (but Gleb's eye has always proved better than
> mine). Just a couple of adjustments I'd ask before you send to Andrew:

Gleb has acked this to me in a private mail.
Right, Gleb?

...

>
> 2. Your two-line changeset comment should be expanded:

OK, thanks, I'll work on an appropriate description.

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
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