[Devel] Re: [RFC v14-rc3][PATCH 33/36] Support for share memory address spaces

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Thu Apr 9 17:09:27 PDT 2009


Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl at cs.columbia.edu):
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> During task creation, the algorithm implies that the thread group
> leader is created first, and it in turn clones all the other threads
> in the thread group. 
> 
> So now they all share the same MM, and no other task shares that mm.
> 
> One arbitrary thread is restarted first (depending on the checkpoint
> order) - it will destory the VMAs in that MM and reconstruct new ones
> within that MM.  When other threads get to cr_read_mm() they will

Oooh.  I had it in my mind that a new mm was being created altogether.

thanks,
-serge
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