On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:50:05PM +0800, wenchaolinux@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Wenchao Xia <wenchaolinux@xxxxxxxxx> > > This serial try to enable mremap syscall to cow some private memory region, > just like what fork() did. As a result, user space application would got a > mirror of those region, and it can be used as a snapshot for further processing. > What not just fork()? Even if the application was threaded it should be managable to handle fork just for processing the private memory region in question. I'm having trouble figuring out what sort of application would require an interface like this. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>