Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:33:40 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [1/4]: demand paging core |
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:56:27PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > +static void scrub_one_pmd(pmd_t * pmd) > > +{ > > + struct page *page; > > + > > + if (pmd && !pmd_none(*pmd) && !pmd_huge(*pmd)) { > > + page = pmd_page(*pmd); > > + pmd_clear(pmd); > > + dec_page_state(nr_page_table_pages); > > + page_cache_release(page); > > + } > > +} > > It would be nicer to fix the pagetable leak (over the lifetime of a > process) in the core instead of sprinkling hugetlb with this.
Yes, I contacted you yesterday about this. Could you take this on? CC me on the patches and we will try to support you as best as we can.
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