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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages 
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:34:24 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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hpa@zytor.com said:
> I think it's you -- you seem to suffer from the "my application is the
> only one that counts" syndrome.  If you want to pages dirtied, then
> dirty them using memset() or similar. 

I think you and Alan think I want the host kernel to do the dirtying.  Not so,
I want no changes on the host.  I want a hook that UML can use to make sure
that all pages that it allocates are backed.

And memset or something similar is exactly what I have in mind.

				Jeff

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