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SubjectRe: RFC: COW for hugepages
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,

Zoltán Menyhárt
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