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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time
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I had a patch like that a couple of years back but it was not accepted.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/prefault/

http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/14/70942.html

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1292.html