Re: what is the difference between __free_page() &page_cache_release()

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 10:02:52 EST


On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:27 +0530, yogeshwar sonawane wrote:
> hi,
> I am writing a driver for 2.6 in which i am locking down some pages
> into the physical memory by manually traversing the page tables. After
> my work with those pages is finished, i free them using
> __free_page(). For some cases it is running fine. But while running
> some applications, i got the following error:

you forgot to put in a url to your code

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