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DateMon, 14 Nov 2005 14:25:35 +0200
From"Michael S. Tsirkin" <>
SubjectRe: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware...
Quoting Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:
> Subject: Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware...
> > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:> > > > Hugh, did you have something like the following in mind
> > (this is only boot-tested and only on x86-64)?> > Yes, that looks pretty good to me, a few comments below.
> Only another twenty or so architectures to go ;)

There's one thing that I have thought about: what happens
if I set DONTFORK on a page which already has COW set
(e.g. after fork)?

It seems that the right thing would be to force a page copy -
otherwise the page can get copied on write.

Makes sense?

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