Re: Page scan keeps touching kernel text pages

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:07 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> shrink_page_list() would be expected to be passed pages pulled from
> the active or inactive lists via isolate_lru_pages()?  I would not have
> expected to find the kernel text on the LRU and therefore not expect to
> see it passed to shrink_page_list()?

It may have been kernel text at one time, but what about __init
functions?  Don't we free that section back to the normal allocator
after init time?  Those can end up on the LRU.

-- Dave

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