From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate1.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8TFc2OI105396 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:38:02 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j8TFc19P176468 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:38:01 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8TFc1Uf030859 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:38:01 +0200 Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] Page host virtual assist: base patch. From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <1128006716.6339.14.camel@localhost> References: <20050929131525.GB5700@skybase.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1128006716.6339.14.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:38:11 +0200 Message-Id: <1128008292.4914.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-mm , frankeh@watson.ibm.com, rhim@cc.gatech.edu List-ID: On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 08:11 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:15 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > Allocated pages start out in stable state. What prevents a page from > > being made volatile? There are 10 conditions: > ... > > 5) The page is anonymous. The page has no backing, can't recreate it. > > Anonymous pages still in the swap cache have backing, right? > > -- Dave Correct. -- blue skies, Martin Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org