From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 04:02:52 +0100 From: Guillaume Morin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clear dirty bits etc on compound frees Message-ID: <20031201030252.GC18393@oyster.morinfr.org> References: <22420000.1069877625@[10.10.2.4]> <20031126122036.6389c773.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031126122036.6389c773.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- Guillaume Morin I'm unclean, a libertine, every time you vent your spleen, I seem to lose the power of speech, you're slipping slowly from my reach, you grow me like an evergreen, you've never seen me lonely at all. (Placebo) -- 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: aart@kvack.org