Re: pagecoloring: kernel 2.2 mm question: what is happening during fork ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 10:48:18 EST


> and after having insmoded the page coloring module with verbosity at
> maximum,I can see only 8 pages
> allocated and coloured by the system and then nothing. The processes are
> forked
> and eat the memory (doing their job as they should) bypassing my patch
> (as if it was not present),
> that's why I suspect another mecanism is used. Am I wrong ?

As I said, its done by the page fault handler.
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