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

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:15:56PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> So, does this make things at all clearer?  Without the patch I get random
> UML deaths when tmpfs can't back a page.  With it, tmpfs is forced to back
> newly allocated pages when they're allocated, and the allocation returns NULL
> if it can't.  The result being I get no UML deaths and fairly reasonable 
> behavior.

startup of UML where the ram is allocated -> a uml booted with 64MB of 
ram would write into every page of the backing store file before even 
running the kernel.  Doesn't that accomplish the same thing?

		-ben