Re: doubt in shrink_mmap

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:59:55 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, T Subramania Sharma wrote:

> in the function shrink_mmap() which is called from
>try_to_free_page() some of the pages (text pages) are thrown out of
>memory without reflecting the changes in the page tables.

such pages have reference count == 1 and this mean they are not mapped in
any userspace pte.

Andrea

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