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Copy on write for hugetlbfs

From:  Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To:  linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject:  [RFC 0/2] Copy on write for hugetlbfs
Date:  Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:10:41 -0600
Cc:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, hugh@veritas.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>, akpm@osdl.org
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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


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