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Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd()

From Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd()
Date 2016-02-12 19:50 +0100
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On 02/11/2016 06:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> File pmds can be safely skip on copy_huge_pmd(), we can re-fault them
> later. COW for file mappings handled on pte level.

Is this different from 4k pages?  I figured we might skip copying
file-backed ptes on fork, but I couldn't find the code.

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[PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 15:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-02-12 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-16 11:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-02-16 16:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-18 13:50 +0100

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