From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:19:39 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo: Wired" In-Reply-To: <442420A2.80807@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <441FEFC7.5030109@yahoo.com.au> <442098B6.5000607@yahoo.com.au> <442420A2.80807@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Stone Wang , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > Why would you want to ever do something like that though? I don't think > > > you should use this name "just in case", unless you have some really good > > > potential usage in mind. > > > > ramfs > > Why would ramfs want its pages in this wired list? (I'm not so > familiar with it but I can't think of a reason). Because ramfs pages cannot be paged out, which makes them locked into memory the same way mlocked pages are. -- All Rights Reversed -- 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: email@kvack.org