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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] __free_pages_ok oops
    "David S. Miller" wrote:
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    > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
    > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:19:32 -0800
    >
    > It's only a problem if this is the final put_page(). In the
    > case of sendfile(), process-context code can be taught to take
    > a temporary reference on the page, and only release it after the network
    > stack is known to have finished with the page. sendfile is synchronous, yes?
    >
    > Userspace can return long before the SKBs are free'd up. That SKB
    > free doesn't happen until the ACKs come back from the receiver.

    I feel that presence on the lru list should contribute to
    page->count. It seems a bit weird and kludgy that this
    is not so.

    If we were to do this then would this not fix networking's
    problem? The skb free wouldn't release the page - it would
    be left on the LRU with ->count == 1 and kswapd would reap it.

    (Says me, hoping that Hugh will code it :))

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