From: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clear dirty bits etc on compound frees
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 04:02:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201030252.GC18393@oyster.morinfr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031126122036.6389c773.akpm@osdl.org>
Dans un message du 26 Nov a 12:20, Andrew Morton ecrivait :
> hmm. How did the dirty bit get itself set?
Pages in the cluster are mmaped via the nopage method as decribed in
Linux Device Drivers : http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch13.html#t2
in section "Remapping RAM". When the userspace program writes on a page,
it gets the dirty bit.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 20:13 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-26 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-01 3:02 ` Guillaume Morin [this message]
2003-12-01 19:40 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-02 9:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
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