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From: Carsten Otte <cotte.de@gmail.com>
To: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to identify cow (copy-on-write) pages during kernel execution?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:35:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c77e7070506200435229cd064@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f250c71050620043066ff0262@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/20/05, Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the only way to identify copy-on-write pages is when page fault
> related to copy-on-write happens, right? I mean in the
> handle_pte_fault() that calls do_wp_page().
That shows you at the time of copy, and at a given time later you can
also walk the mm and look that the pte's to see if they are writable.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-06-20 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-20  5:45 How to identify cow (copy-on-write) pages during kernel execution? Mauricio Lin
2005-06-20  6:33 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-20 11:09 ` Carsten Otte
2005-06-20 11:30   ` Mauricio Lin
2005-06-20 11:35     ` Carsten Otte [this message]

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