Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Sep 2002 15:47:59 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 |
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 00:19, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'm not sure what semantics we really want for this. If we were to > > "invalidate" a mapped page then it would become anonymous, which > > makes some sense. > > There's no need to leave the page mapped, you can easily walk the rmap list > and remove the references.
A pagefaulting task can have claimed a reference to the page and only be waiting on the lock we're currently holding.
regards,
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