From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:00:03 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: A question about pages in stacks Message-ID: <20000413220003.E13446@redhat.com> References: <200004131958.VAA00863@agnes.bagneux.maison> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200004131958.VAA00863@agnes.bagneux.maison>; from jfm2@club-internet.fr on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:58:44PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: JF Martinez Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/