[openib-general] Re: madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Feb 13 11:02:06 PST 2006


Quoting r. Hugh Dickins <hugh at veritas.com>:
> > Add madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited across fork.
> > Useful e.g. for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these pages.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
> 
> Looks good to me, Michael (but Gleb's eye has always proved better than
> mine).  Just a couple of adjustments I'd ask before you send to Andrew: 

Gleb has acked this to me in a private mail.
Right, Gleb?

...

> 
> 2. Your two-line changeset comment should be expanded:

OK, thanks, I'll work on an appropriate description.

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies



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