Hi,

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 02:57:41 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@e-mind.com> said:

>> /* We can't free pages unless there's just one user */
>> if (atomic_read(&page->count) != 1)
>> continue;
>> +
>> +		count--;

> but this is plain bogus. When your machine will reach 0 freeable pages
> (and that happens a bit before to kill the process because OOM) you'll get
> an infinite loop in shrink_mmap().

No.  We skip only shared pages.  We still count page tables, vmalloced
pages, task structs, kmalloc/slab pages, dma buffers and all those other
kernel pages which do not belong to the VM.

--Stephen

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