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Asked: 2026-06-06T03:53:56+00:00

I am implementing cp(file copy) command using mmap(). For that I mapped the source

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I am implementing cp(file copy) command using mmap().
For that I mapped the source file in MAP_PRIVATE (As I just want to read)mode and destination file in MAP_SHARED mode(As I have to writeback the changed content of destination file).

While doing this I have observed performance penalty due to lots of minor page faults that occurs due to 2 reason.
1) Zero fill on demand while calling mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) for source file.
2) Copy on write while calling mmap(MAP_SHARED) for destination file.

Is there any way to disable Zero-fill-on-demand and Copy-on-write ?

Thanks,
Harish

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is MMAP_POPULATE flag of mmap(2):

    http://linux.die.net/man/2/mmap

    MAP_POPULATE (since Linux 2.5.46)
    Populate (prefault) page tables for a mapping. For a file mapping, this causes read-ahead on the file. Later accesses to the mapping will not be blocked by page faults. MAP_POPULATE is only supported for private mappings since Linux 2.6.23.

    It should pre-fault all pages in mmapped region. It should work for question (1), and may not work for question (2) (shared).

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