Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:54 -0500 | From | "Stone Wang" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo: Wired" |
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The name "Wired" could be changed to which one most kids think better fits the job.
I choosed "Wired" for: "Locked" will conflict with PG_locked bit of a pags. "Pinned" indicates a short-term lock,so not fits the job too.
Shaoping Wang
2006/3/21, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>: > Stone Wang wrote: > > The list potentially could have more wider use. > > > > For example, kernel-space locked/pinned pages could be placed on the list too > > (while mlocked pages are locked/pinned by system calls from user-space). > > > > kernel-space pages are always pinned. And no, you can't put them on the list > because you never know if their ->lru field is going to be used for something > else. > > 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. > > --- > SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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