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Hi Badari, On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > I am trying to understand how SHM_LOCK works on 2.4.17. > All I can see SHM_LOCKED set in shm_flags. I don't see how > it is locking the pages (that are already existing or future > pages). Can somebody explain ? This flag prevents that the pages are written to swap. shmem_writepage honors it. SHM_LOCK does _not_ force actually swapped out pages into memory though. Greetings Christoph - 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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