Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:00:28 +0200 | From | Gleb Natapov <> | Subject | Re: changing physical page |
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On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:20:00PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, yipee wrote: > > Hugh Dickins <hugh <at> veritas.com> writes: > > > I'll assume that when you say "page owned by a user program", you're > > > meaning a private page, not a shared file page mapped into the program. > > > > > > If you're asking about what currently happens, the answer is "No". > > > > > > If you're asking about what you can assume, the answer is "Yes". > > > > So you are saying that the current kernel doesn't move these kind of pages? > > If you don't have swap (one of the conditions you gave), yes. > And what if application forks and writes to the private page? Kernel actually memcpy the page to another location.
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