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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages 
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:36:06 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> alloc_pages is only called at the time the backing page is created -
> by then it doesnt matter - its too late.

*My* (i.e. the one inside UML) alloc_pages, not the host's would do the
dirtying.  That's the whole point.  The UML alloc_pages would make sure
that the pages it hands out are backed on the host before they are handed
out to the rest of UML.

				Jeff

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