Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:12:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/11] unpaged: COW on VM_UNPAGED |
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > The recent vbetool suspend-from-ram datapoint shows that it might be > important that the BIOS data area is application local, > ie. MAP_PRIVATE. Ie. it works only if the writes are not performed > to the real BIOS data page.
Interesting. I haven't dared reach that conclusion yet.
> If true, that means the MAP_PRIVATE+VM_UNPAGED case has legit users. > Although, such applications could just copy the interrupt vector plus > BIOS data area into an anonymously mapped region and have the vm86 > execution work off that instead of the /dev/mem mapping.
Yes, they could indeed. Would save the kernel contortions.
> So, just to make sure this all adds up, a PROT_WRITE+MAP_PRIVATE > mapping of /dev/mem results in any pages written to being COW'd. > Right?
Yes, in everything before 2.6.15-rc1, and again with my patches.
> It is a good question as to which cases doing stuff like this want to > make modifications to the real BIOS data area, and which ones do not. > Aparently vbetool does not.
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