From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jA7LBRDh017474 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:11:27 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id jA7LBRqu118382 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:11:27 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA7LBRDO002776 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:11:27 -0500 Subject: [RFC 0/2] Copy on write for hugetlbfs From: Adam Litke Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:10:41 -0600 Message-Id: <1131397841.25133.90.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Gibson , hugh@veritas.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, "Chen, Kenneth W" , akpm@osdl.org List-ID: The following two patches implement copy-on-write for hugetlbfs (thus enabling MAP_PRIVATE mappings). Patch 1/2 (previously posted by David Gibson) contains a couple small fixes to the demand fault handler and makes COW fit in nicely. Patch 2/2 is the cow changes. Comments? -- Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com) IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org