From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: A question about pages in stacks
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:00:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000413220003.E13446@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200004131958.VAA00863@agnes.bagneux.maison>; from jfm2@club-internet.fr on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:58:44PM +0200
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:58:44PM +0200, JF Martinez wrote:
> 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?
The kernel will never throw away unused stack pages unless the
process explicitly unmaps them.
--Stephen
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-13 19:58 JF Martinez
2000-04-13 21:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-04-13 21:27 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2000-04-13 21:36 ` JF Martinez
2000-04-13 22:59 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
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