From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:39:39 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat Message-ID: <20040915133939.GC30530@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <413AA7B2.4000907@yahoo.com.au> <20040904230210.03fe3c11.davem@davemloft.net> <413AAF49.5070600@yahoo.com.au> <413AE6E7.5070103@yahoo.com.au> <1094405830.2809.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040915132712.GA6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040915132904.GA30530@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040915133408.GB6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040915133408.GB6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:34:08PM +0200, J=F6rn Engel wrote: > On Wed, 15 September 2004 15:29:04 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >=20 > > if you haven't pinned those pages then you have lost already. >=20 > Bug reports say otherwise. Could you explain "pinning" to a newbie > like me? if your page is made unfreeable for the vm, for example by virtue of not being on the LRU or having an elevated count or.. or .. then such a page is pinned. if your page is freeable byt he VM and your device is dmaing from/to it you have a really bad bug --TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBSEYaxULwo51rQBIRAjYbAJ4iqRw0AGZZgzTrAuIrVvEp1I0DxgCfaAoL nwv+i9R8Z4LFeBRYQaBREH8= =7Fid -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg-- -- 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