Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo:Wired"

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > ramfs
> 
> Why would ramfs want its pages in this wired list? (I'm not so
> familiar with it but I can't think of a reason).

Because ramfs pages cannot be paged out, which makes them locked
into memory the same way mlocked pages are.

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