Re: How to identify cow (copy-on-write) pages during kernelexecution?

[Nick Piggin]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 01:45 -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote:


Hi,

> So when a page struct is considered a cow in the
> kernel and its count variable is updated? Certainly
> the counter page (page->_count) is updated when a page
> is shared because of copy-on-write feature. 
> How can I identify cow pages when it becomes cow? Is
> there any feasible way to perform that?
> 

Look in mm/memory.c at how the page fault handler decides
it is dealing with a COW page.

Nick

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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