Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd()

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 13:42:15 EST

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On 02/11/2016 06:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> File pmds can be safely skip on copy_huge_pmd(), we can re-fault them
> later. COW for file mappings handled on pte level.

Is this different from 4k pages? I figured we might skip copying
file-backed ptes on fork, but I couldn't find the code.

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