Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:12:39 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: tracking memory usage/leak in "inactive" field in /proc/meminfo? |
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On 02/16/2010 11:52 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 02/15/2010 11:00 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Removal from the LRU is done from the page freeing code, on >> the final free of the page.
> There are a bunch of inline functions involved, but I think the chain > from page_remove_rmap() back up to unmap_vmas() looks like this: > > page_remove_rmap > zap_pte_range > zap_pmd_range > zap_pud_range > unmap_page_range > unmap_vmas > > So in this scenario, where do the pages actually get removed from the > LRU list (assuming that they're not in use by anyone else)?
__page_cache_release
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