Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:47:34 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [1/4]: demand paging core |
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:56:27PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > +static void scrub_one_pmd(pmd_t * pmd) > +{ > + struct page *page; > + > + if (pmd && !pmd_none(*pmd) && !pmd_huge(*pmd)) { > + page = pmd_page(*pmd); > + pmd_clear(pmd); > + dec_page_state(nr_page_table_pages); > + page_cache_release(page); > + } > +}
It would be nicer to fix the pagetable leak (over the lifetime of a process) in the core instead of sprinkling hugetlb with this.
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