From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:02:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Raghu R. Arur" Subject: swap_free() inside delete_from_swap_cache Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Why is swap_free() called inside delete_from_swap_cache() in linux 2.4.19? I believe delete_from_swap_cache() is called when we write a page to the swap disk. swap_free() decreases the count of number of references to that page. I am not understanding why should we decrement the count of references when we are swapping the page to the disk. Thanks, Raghu -- 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