Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Apr 2004 11:00:43 +0200 | From | Zoltan Menyhart <> | Subject | Re: RFC: COW for hugepages |
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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> }
Regards,
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