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

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:34:24 -0500


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.

Jeff

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