Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?

Andrew Morton
2007-04-04T20:50:30Z

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> As I understand the patch being considered to remove ZERO_PAGE(), this
> kind of core dump will cause a lot of pages to be allocated, probably
> eating up a lot of system time as well as memory.

Point.

Also, what effect will the proposed changes have upon rss reporting,
and upon the numbers in /proc/pid/[s]maps?