From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agnes.bagneux.maison (ppp-163-238.villette.club-internet.fr [195.36.163.238]) by front7m.grolier.fr (8.9.3/No_Relay+No_Spam_MGC990224) with ESMTP id WAA18646 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:52:44 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:58:44 +0200 Message-Id: <200004131958.VAA00863@agnes.bagneux.maison> From: JF Martinez Subject: A question about pages in stacks Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Let's imagine that when looking for a pege the kerneml a page who has been part of a stack frame but since then the stack has shrunk so it is no longer in it. Will the kernel save it to disk or will it recognize it as a page who despite what the dirty bit could say is in fact free and does not need to be saved? -- Jean Francois Martinez Project Independence: Linux for the Masses http://www.independence.seul.org -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/