Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-04T18:35:26Z

Jeff Dike wrote:

> hpa@zytor.com said:
>
>>I think it's you -- you seem to suffer from the "my application is the
>>only one that counts" syndrome. If you want to pages dirtied, then
>>dirty them using memset() or similar.
>>
>
> I think you and Alan think I want the host kernel to do the dirtying. Not so,
> I want no changes on the host. I want a hook that UML can use to make sure
> that all pages that it allocates are backed.
>
> And memset or something similar is exactly what I have in mind.
>

So why, then, phrase this as a feature request???

-hpa