Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages | Date | 5 Mar 2002 08:57:41 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200203051443.JAA02119@ccure.karaya.com> By author: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The other reason I don't like this is that, at some point, I'd like to > start thinking about userspace cooperating with the kernel on memory > management. UML looks like a perfect place to start since it's essentially > identical to the host making it easier for the two to bargain over memory. > > Having UML react sanely to unbacked pages is a step in that direction, having > UML preemptively grab all the memory it could ever use isn't. >
Until you can come up with a sane application for it, this is just featuritis.
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