From: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: What happened to try_to_swap_out()?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:31:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C5E9D5.6080202@ammasso.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406081224590.23676-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Looks like the bug is in your driver, not the VM.
>
> The VMA that maps such pages should be set VM_RESERVED
> (or whatever the name of that flag was)
I called map_user_kiobuf to get the pages. Shouldn't that be enough?
>>Also, I noticed that RedHat 9.0 doesn't have try_to_swap_out() either.
>>I guess they ported some 2.6 code to 2.4. Can anyone corroborate that?
>
> Yes.
Is there a name for the patch they applied to 2.4 to make it look like 2.6?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-08 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-08 14:59 Timur Tabi
2004-06-08 16:25 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-08 16:31 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2004-06-08 20:12 ` Do I need SetPageReserved() after map_user_kiobuf()? (was: What happened to try_to_swap_out()?) Timur Tabi
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