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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 07:41:39PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The pages are populated _before_ the new ldt is installed. So no memory
> pressure issue, nothing. If the populate fails, then modify_ldt() returns
> with an error.

Also, these pages are not visible to reclaim. They're not pagecache and
we didn't install a shrinker.