The volatile volatile ranges patch set
The volatile volatile ranges patch set
Posted Jun 19, 2014 8:06 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)In reply to: The volatile volatile ranges patch set by jstultz
Parent article: The volatile volatile ranges patch set
Andrea Arcangeli has been working on a "userfaultfd" system call that would let you stop the faulting thread while another thread populates the page. He's using that together with anonymous memory, but perhaps this could be useful for volatile memory ranges too.
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