On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:55 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Just as an aside, the RDMA stuff is also supposed to set MADV_DONTFORK
> on these regions, so I'm a bit puzzled what is happening here.
Did the fork perhaps happen _before_ , so the pages are shared when
you do the pin?
MADV_DONTFORK doesn't mean COW doesn't happen. It just means that the
next fork() won't be copying that memory area.
That said, it's possible that the test cases do something invalid - or
maybe we've broken MADV_DONTFORK - and it all just happened to work
before.
So it's possible the breakage is exposing some other bug..
Linus
