Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:16:06 +0530 (IST) | From | T Subramania Sharma <> | Subject | doubt in shrink_mmap |
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hi,
i encountered this doubt when i was reading the linux source code ( ver : 2.0.33) 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.
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/* is it a page cache page? */ if (page->inode) { remove_page_from_hash_queue(page); remove_page_from_inode_queue(page); __free_page(page); return 1; }
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i think this may create problems , when the thrown pages are referred afterwards. whether i am right ? thanks in advance.
- sharma
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