Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:52:41 +0200 | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | | Subject | Re: Strange memory usage reporting |
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Hi,
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:03:14PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Which is the driver involved? Though it's not wrong to give do_no_page > a Reserved page, beware of the the page->count accounting: while it's > Reserved, get_page or page_cache_get raises the count, but put_page > or page_cache_release does not decrement it - very easy to end up > with the page never freed.
Why is this so asymetric? I would understand ignoring these pages in the freeing logic, but why exclude them also from refcounting?
Regards
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