Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As I understand the patch being considered to remove ZERO_PAGE(), this
> kind of core dump will cause a lot of pages to be allocated, probably
> eating up a lot of system time as well as memory.

Point.

Also, what effect will the proposed changes have upon rss reporting,
and upon the numbers in /proc/pid/[s]maps?
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