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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:15:25 +0100
From:	Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@...e.fr>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@...l.net>
Subject: copy_one_pte()

I had a look at copy_one_pte().
I cannot see any ioproc_update_page() call, not even for the COW pages.
Is it intentional?

We can live with a COW page for a considerably long time.
How could the IO-PROC. know that a process-ID / user virt. addr. pair
refers to the same page?

The comment above ioproc_update_page() says that every time when a PTE
is created / modified...

Thanks,

Zoltan Menyhart

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