Re: pagecoloring: kernel 2.2 mm question: what is happening during fork ?

[Alan Cox]

> and after having insmoded the page coloring module with verbosity at
> maximum,I can see only 8 pages 
> allocated and coloured by the system and then nothing. The processes are
> forked
> and eat the memory (doing their job as they should) bypassing my patch
> (as if it was not present), 
> that's why I suspect another mecanism is used. Am I wrong ?

As I said, its done by the page fault handler.