Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Page scan keeps touching kernel text pages | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:48:22 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:07 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > shrink_page_list() would be expected to be passed pages pulled from > the active or inactive lists via isolate_lru_pages()? I would not have > expected to find the kernel text on the LRU and therefore not expect to > see it passed to shrink_page_list()?
It may have been kernel text at one time, but what about __init functions? Don't we free that section back to the normal allocator after init time? Those can end up on the LRU.
-- Dave
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