From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from UNIX43.andrew.cmu.edu (UNIX43.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.13.173]) (user=aeswaran mech=GSSAPI (0 bits)) by smtp3.andrew.cmu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i21KRHir013511 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:27:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:27:15 -0500 (EST) From: Anand Eswaran Subject: writepage Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi : I have quick question reg Linux 2.4.18, Ive tried to understand the code but am pretty confused: In the typical malloc execution-path, the page is added to swap and it's pte_chain is unmapped after which the writepage() is executed. However I notice that *after* the writepage(), the page->buffers is NON_NULL. Is this supposed to happen? I thought the writepage function flushed the page to swap, so why are there residual buffers? Thanks, ---- Anand. -- 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