Re: How to reclaim inode pages on demand

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On 8/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > The majority of pages I am seeing no longer have page->mapping set. Does
> > > > this mean they are in the process of being cleared up?
> > >
> > > They're just anonymous pages, aren't they?  But you said "pages that are
> > > being used for inodes".  Confused.
> >
> > I thought page->mapping was used by rmap for both inode-backed and
> > anonymous pages. And the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit was used to determine
> > that page->mapping points to struct anon_vma instead of struct
> > address_space.
> >
> > When is page->mapping NULL?
> >
> 
> mm.h:page_mapping() handles all that.

at http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/include/linux/mm.h#L561
Should the comment be s/page_mapped/page->mapping/ ?

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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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