Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages | Date | Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:36:06 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > alloc_pages is only called at the time the backing page is created - > by then it doesnt matter - its too late.
*My* (i.e. the one inside UML) alloc_pages, not the host's would do the dirtying. That's the whole point. The UML alloc_pages would make sure that the pages it hands out are backed on the host before they are handed out to the rest of UML.
Jeff
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