Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:44:41 +1000 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: How to reclaim inode pages on demand |
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Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote: > > > The majority of pages I am seeing no longer have page->mapping set. Does > > > this mean they are in the process of being cleared up? > > > > They're just anonymous pages, aren't they? But you said "pages that are > > being used for inodes". Confused. > > I thought page->mapping was used by rmap for both inode-backed and > anonymous pages. And the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit was used to determine > that page->mapping points to struct anon_vma instead of struct > address_space. > > When is page->mapping NULL? >
mm.h:page_mapping() handles all that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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