Pagemap cache
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Checkpointing processes with large number of small virtual memory areas (VMAs) can lead to significant performance overhead. This overhead is primarily due to the frequent reading of VMA information from /proc/[pid]/pagemap, as described in Memory dumps. To mitigate this problem, CRIU uses a pagemap cache (pmc) to reduce the frequency of pread calls by caching information about VMAs.