Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:58:02 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm->rss is modified without page_table_lock held |
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
can't we just change rss to count pages?
This is what it does now.
or are we worried about rss's over ~16 TB?
If we weren't, we could just use an atomic_t for this problem. We can't.
This patch is the only currently available solution to this problem which is in any way acceptable.
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