Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:09:31 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: How to reclaim inode pages on demand |
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On 8/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > 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.
at http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/include/linux/mm.h#L561 Should the comment be s/page_mapped/page->mapping/ ?
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