Re: tracking memory usage/leak in "inactive" field in /proc/meminfo?

[Rik van Riel]

On 02/16/2010 11:52 AM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 02/15/2010 11:00 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > Removal from the LRU is done from the page freeing code, on
> > the final free of the page.

> There are a bunch of inline functions involved, but I think the chain
> from page_remove_rmap() back up to unmap_vmas() looks like this:
>
> page_remove_rmap
> zap_pte_range
> zap_pmd_range
> zap_pud_range
> unmap_page_range
> unmap_vmas
>
> So in this scenario, where do the pages actually get removed from the
> LRU list (assuming that they're not in use by anyone else)?

__page_cache_release

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