Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:08:52 -0700 | From | "Ken Chen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Fix pool resizing corner case |
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On 10/3/07, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Not quite. Count can never go below the number of reserved pages plus > > pages allocated to MAP_PRIVATE mappings. That number is computed by: > > (resv + (total - free)). > > So, (total - free) equals the number of MAP_PRIVATE pages? Does that > imply that all reserved pages are shared and that all shared pages are > reserved?
no, not quite. In-use huge page (total - free) can be both private or shared. resv_huge_pages counts number of pages that is committed for shared mapping, but not yet faulted in.
What the equation does essentially is: resv_huge_pages + nr-huge-pages-in-use.
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