From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so23410uge for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:37:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:54 -0500 From: "Stone Wang" Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo: Wired" In-Reply-To: <442098B6.5000607@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <441FEFC7.5030109@yahoo.com.au> <442098B6.5000607@yahoo.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: The name "Wired" could be changed to which one most kids think better fits the job. I choosed "Wired" for: "Locked" will conflict with PG_locked bit of a pags. "Pinned" indicates a short-term lock,so not fits the job too. Shaoping Wang 2006/3/21, Nick Piggin : > Stone Wang wrote: > > The list potentially could have more wider use. > > > > For example, kernel-space locked/pinned pages could be placed on the list too > > (while mlocked pages are locked/pinned by system calls from user-space). > > > > kernel-space pages are always pinned. And no, you can't put them on the list > because you never know if their ->lru field is going to be used for something > else. > > 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. > > --- > SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > -- 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