Defer copying of ptes until fault time when it is possible to reconstruct
the pte from backing store. Idea from Andi Kleen and Nick Piggin.

Thanks to input from Rik van Riel and Linus and to Hugh for correcting
my blundering.

[ Note to akpm: Ray Fucillo <fucillo@intersystems.com>'s results go here ]

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c	2005-08-13 11:16:34.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c	2005-08-28 16:41:32.000000000 +1000
@@ -498,6 +498,17 @@ int copy_page_range(struct mm_struct *ds
 	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);