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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:33:41 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
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Jeff Dike wrote:

> 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.
> 


So why, then, phrase this as a feature request???

	-hpa


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