/spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch 'master'

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e046b7e4b53..a596c117224 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -498,6 +498,17 @@ int copy_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 	unsigned long addr = vma->vm_start;
 	unsigned long end = vma->vm_end;
 
+	/*
+	 * Don't copy ptes where a page fault will fill them correctly.
+	 * Fork becomes much lighter when there are big shared or private
+	 * readonly mappings. The tradeoff is that copy_page_range is more
+	 * efficient than faulting.
+	 */
+	if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_RESERVED))) {
+		if (!vma->anon_vma)
+			return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
 		return copy_hugetlb_page_range(dst_mm, src_mm, vma);