Re: [PATCH 2/7] ksm: treat unstable nid like in stable tree

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Tue Mar 05 2013 - 23:32:16 EST


On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Will Huck wrote:
>
> How ksm treat a ksm forked page? IIUC, it's not merged in ksm stable tree. It
> will just be ignore?

No, it's there in the stable tree, as it was before it got forked. And
when ksmd comes around to find the new mm, it will allocate an rmap_item
for that page in the new mm, and append it to the existing stable_node.

Hugh
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