Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots

How Linux demand-pages memory, what mmap does to physical pages, why replacing a mapping breaks direct memory access and shared memory, and how userfaultfd lets you lazily populate memory without destroying the mapping.
42 points by shayonj 217 days ago www.shayon.dev 3 comments
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