kwr@kwr.hnv.com said:
> "Move" is the stumbling block here. You don't know what memory
> regions (forgot the structure names already *sigh*) use a given
> physical address unless you exhaustively check every PTE of every
> memory region in every process. Plus the buffer cache.
Plus device drivers. Some pci device may have a pointer to that memory
there. In other words, it might not be in any kernel tables at all.
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