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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