On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, in fact, is anything required beyond Peter's original simple patch? I initially thought there would be a problem with breaking COW on anon pages (think of fork() + mlock() ), but then I realized these won't show up in VM_SHARED vmas, so Peter's patch seems fine. > Added Ccs of those most likely to agree or disagree with us. I forgot to add Arjan and Andrea in my proposal ('Avoid dirtying pages during mlock'). Let's move the discussion there. -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>